boarding. sthal a fair summary of the conflict? yes, senator, i believe it is. there were people in the bush administration that did not want to go down the road that water boarding was torture. that was not the view of senator mccain or myself. at the end of the day the detainee treatment act codified how we treat enemy combatants in a time of war in terms of practices we can employ in terms of interrogation standards, is that correct? yes. it also tried to come up with a system of judicial review. i was in the camp that we re at war, and in past wars you don t give enemy prisoners lawyers. i don t remember any german or japanese prisoner having a lawyer when they were captured. so traditionally is it the commander in chief s job to determine who the enemy force is? there s certainly legal
constitution of the united states, nowhere in that document does it say the senate has a duty to give residential nominee a vote. this is senator schumer. the last july, 2007. we should reverse the presumption of confirmation, we should not confirm any nominee to the supreme court, except an extra ordinary circumstances. that was the last year, president bush s last term. to my democratic colleagues, on november 21st, 2013, you decided when you are in charge of this body by a 52 heaven 48 vote to change the rules of united states senate, the united states executive branch and appointments and all the judges below that of the supreme court. i m not going to ask you whether you think that was fair or not, because that s not your job. i will say to the public, i
and it is, action on a supreme court nomination must be put off until after the election campaign is over. if someone steps down, i would highly recommend the president not name someone, not send a name up, if the bush if bush did not send someone up, i would ask the senate to seriously consider if bush did send someone up, i would ask the senate to seriously consider not having a hearing on that nominee. that was joe biden, the possibility of a vacancy coming about by somebody stepping down, not dying. once the campaign season was afoot. justice alito passed away in february. there had already been three primaries. the campaign season, in my view, was afoot. this is what senator reed said in 2005. the duties of the united states senate are set forth in the constitution of the united states. nowhere in that document does it
and it is, action on a supreme court nomination must be put off until after the election campaign is over. if someone steps down, i would highly recommend the president not naming someone, not send in a mob, if bush did not send someone up, i would ask the senate to seriously consider not having a hearing on the nominee. that was joe biden, the possibility of the vacancy coming about of somebody stepping down, not dying. once the campaign season was afoot. justice alito passed away in february, there had already been three primaries. the campaign season in my view was afoot. this is what senator reid said in may 2005. the duties of united states senator set forth in the
rewarded. we don t have the requirement yet for the supreme court and i hope we never will. time will tell. i m not optimistic. at the time of that vote, the senate had confirmed 19 of obam obama s judicial nominations. that same time and president bush s a second term, there ve been four confirmed. i thought it was politically motivated and when it comes to cries of being unfair, they fall on deaf ears. as to justice garland, fine man. i fully expected trump to lose. he won. i think he deserves the right of every president. that s not just me saying that.