Cspan2. Confirmation hearings for amy coney barre Amy Coney Barrett president trumps nominee to the supreme court, and spoke about the first president ial debate. Here is a look. This week the senators who are sitting down with judge Amy Coney Barrett are meeting an incredibly impressive jurist and highly qualified nominee. Theyre hearing from the professor whom former colleagues call quote, mind blowingly intelligent. One of the most humble people youre going to meet and the complete package. Theyre meeting a law school valedictorian, an Award Winning academic whom peers praise for her lucid elegant pros, piercing legal analysis and absolute dedication to the rule of law and senators are meeting the distinguished circuit judge, liberal law professor feldman says is a brilliant and conscientious lawyer who is highly qualified to serve on the supreme court. Some of our democratic colleagues have decided they will refuse to meet with judge barrett. Several interest volunteered that their
Werent really going to have an instore event this week but then we heard ruths book was coming out so we decided we had to have it. [applause] so thank you very much for bearing with us. I am Bradley Graham the cone are of politics and prose along with my wife lissa muscatine. Thank you so much for coming. We were very excited when we learned after last years clematis hearings on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court that ruth marcus was writing a book on the subject because we knew that if anyone could deliver an indepth behindthescenes account of what happened and also put the whole drama into a grand and political context it would be roof. She hasnt disappointed. Her new look supreme ambition is fastpaced and makes for a really compelling read. In the acknowledge mens rev calls this a book shes been preparing to ride for her entire career and indeed she brought to it a wealth of knowledge and experience, educated in history at yale and harvard ruth went right into
trump ignored big any necessary and used tariff. we are not looking to decouple from china. we like to see this relationship get on to a better footing. a growing china that plays by international rules is good for the united states and the world. laura: thank you, janet. now trump is opposed to open borders, both biden and gop establishment support. announced those sweeping measures that i mentioned moments ago from the state and dhhs to extend legal pathways, and judges and more. laura: she reads really well. trump is opposed to never ending wars and wants to reform our national security establishment. both biden and the gop establishment support it and both have a record of spending trillions and trillions on failed wars. we will support ukraine s defense for as long as it takes. supporting ukraine as long as it takes. for long it takes . that s how long we are going to be with you mr. president, for as long as it takes. laura: he was walking off the w
Judge katzmann good afternoon. I am chief judge of the u. S. Court of appeals for the Second Circuit. With us today along with the judges of the court of appeals are three distinguished justices of the Supreme Court. Our cherished circuit Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg, our beloved colleague, former colleague, Justice Sonia sotomayor who for many years was a member of this court. Last year she graciously launched our 125th Anniversary Program from the bench. Justice elena kagan a great friend of the Second Circuit who participated in our 125th Anniversary Program on Thurgood Marshall. Judicial colleagues, staff, members of the bar, and friends of the Second Circuit it is an honor to welcome you here this afternoon to this special session of court as we bring to a close our courts year long retrospective marking 125 years of the u. S. Court of appeals the Second Circuit. For all of us, it has been special always to be in this historic courtroom where so many noteworthy cases have been adju
Justice Antonin Scalia sat 2009 on his pan in life as a Supreme Court justice. Cspans in ing memorium 2016. Associate justice antonin the simplest of terms, would you explain what the role and responsibilities of associate ourt justice are . Whoa. Haha, to try to come out the way on cases that the court has agreed to hear. Secondly and this is the only respect in which the ob differs from the job of a court of appeals judge, to ecide on what cases the court should agree to hear. So essentially two functions. Latter is prior, i mean, first of all decide what to put on our docket. What is on our docket to try to get it right. What role do you see the playing in society today. And the second question is, has tenure . D over your the same role it has always played. I dont think its changed. Is in the role democracy, to give a fair and interpretation to the that thef dispositions people have have adopted, either statutes or the people when they ratified the constitution. No more, no t, less