Wade, gun control and a host of other policy issues, she patiently explained that none of that is her job. I interpret the constitution as a law, and its not up to me to update it or infuse my own policy views into it. As ive also said repeatedly, any policy preferences that i have dont matter anyway. Theyre irrelevant. So making that law, thats sure job. Gerry what we saw on display were the two very different visions of the role of the courts. Conservatives believe in judicial restraint the, interpretation of the law by judges. Democrats want to use the judiciary to make policy. Its why they object to judge barrett and why they plan to pack the court if they win the white house and senate next month. Democrats dont really want to talk about this, so of course what they do is attacked judge barrett on a range of other, frankly, completely extraneous things. The most bizarre was the condemnation this week of her for using a particular word when she was talking about sexuality. I have n
And often em coarse and often embarrassing questions. They see the Supreme Court and, indeed, the entire federal judiciary as policymakers rather than neutral arbiters of the law. Judge barrett made the clash between the radical dems and republicans all the clearer. This is her view of the court and a role of judges to uphold the law as written. Judges cant just wake up one day and say i have an awe agenda, i like guns, i hate guns, i like abortion, i hate abortion, and walk in like a row yall queen and impose, you know, their will on the world. I interpret the constitution as a law that i interpret text as text, and i understand it to have the meaning that it had at the time people ratified it. So that meaning doesnt change over time, and its not up to me to update it or infuse my own policy views into it. Lou the dems today also exposing their ang sue few about joe biden anxiety i think about joe bidens chances next month against President Trump. So much so, senator Patrick Leahy ask
There are several developing stories as we come on the air, including two significant setbacks tonight in the search for a cure for coronavirus. Just as cases are spiking nationwide, were going to get to that and the Drug Companies that are now pausing their tests on experimental drugs in just a moment. But were going to begin with that marathon confirmation hearing on capitol hill that is now stretching into the night. President trumps pick for the supreme court, judge amy coney barrett, has spent the day defending her judicial philosophy and dodging questions about how shed rule on future cases, including next months challenge to obamacare. Barrett also refused to say how she would rule on abortion, insisting she has not made deals with the president or the white house. And while she would not commit to recution herself from any electionrelated cases, barrett said she would not be usedaise pawn by the president to decide the election in his favor. With her confirmation all but certai
Council or Foreign Relations since 2003. Today were here convenes to listen to Richard Haass the prolific author and academic who just came out with yet another book entitled not very ambushesly as he said, slightly ambushesly the world, a brief history in 300 pages. He calls it a little bit of a departure from his previous books. I want to start because it was only after you turned in the manuscript that the world was confront by the covid19 pandemic, and in the roughly two months since that happened, this crisis has highlighted so many of the themes and concepts you tackle in the book. So i wanted to just ask you outright, what does the pandemic tell us about the world right now . Well, thank you, juju, thank you for doing this. Thanks always to everybody on the call. Hope everybody is well and safe as we all get through this one day at a time or as ive said, one groundhog day at a time. What i think the pandemic tells us first and for most is that the world matters. Thats perhaps an
Pilot program. Nbc 10s keith jones is live along the schuylkill. Keith . Reporter weve all seen active work zones, this isnt one here. The schuylkill is to my left, your right. You can see that blinking light and with that you could see a camera. Picture this this, this car hit four workers in an active work zone in bucks county in 2015. The driver died. In 2015 there were 1,935 crashes in work zone. Reporter this state senator is hoping a new bill adding speeding cameras in highway work zones could change that. Or could it . My opinion is there are likely to be abused for revenue rather than safety. Reporter james walker says its a money grab. Cameras are expensive and workers are relatively safe behind concrete barriers. In order to collect enough tickets to pay for it you generally have to have a speed limit thats artificially and unrealistically too low. Reporter aaa disagrees wholeheartedly. Aaa has worked vehemently in conjunction with the sponsor of the bill to make sure that th