for impartiality of judgments, and moving off the first amendment questions, throughout the court s history, it has been so key, and the court has relied on it to maintain stability and the law inform the impartiality, and i know senator durbin, a very famous book about him, justice harry blackman, justice breyer succeeded on the court said in his concurrence in planned parenthood v. casey up the decision to uphold roe vs. wade, what has happened should serve as a model for future justices and warning for all who try to turn the court into yet another political branch. what role do you think stary
when judge barrett was here, question came around with charles grassley of iowa answering it, she deferred. number one. you agree with justice breyer that court packing is a bad idea? an respectfully, senator, other nominees have responded as i will, which is that it is a policy question for congress and i am particularly mindful of not speaking to policy issues because i am so committed to staying in my lane of the system. john: she stayed in her lane
as dick durbin suggested she should, but not out of the realm of reality for a supreme court justice to talk about all of this because steven breyer was very adamant that court packing was a bad idea. well, it is a bad idea and you do wish she would address it. i would say this. she s quite right there is nothing the supreme court can do about it, it really is up to congress, and you would think once you are a justice on the supreme court the legitimacy of the court is a major concern for you and part of the legitimacy i think is keeping the number at nine rather than changing it to suit people s political agendas. sandra: i spoke to senator marsha blackburn earlier and shared her concerns and she has penned an op-ed, it s on foxnews.com, concerned about ketanji brown jackson serving on the board of a school that promotes critical race theory.
but quote justice breyer, he told this committee, if you are going to have a free enterprise economy you must have a strong and effective antitrust law. do you agree with justice breyer s statement and how would you verify the gold standard of antitrust law? thank you, senator. the antitrust laws protect competition and as you said, therefore protect consumers and competitors in the economy as a whole, and the sherman act and the clayton act are broad in their in their statements and their protections and there is a lot of precedence in this area. if i were confirmed, i would use my methodology to look at the
on what the supreme court justices themselves deem appropriate at the moment? i don t think so. and why is that? because the way in which the supreme court interprets the constitution is with reference to the meaning of the text at the time. that it is one of the constraints as i mentioned in terms of my own way of handling, interpreting the law, that one of the constraints is that you are bound by the text and what it meant to those who drafted it. at the time got you, ok. now on february 1st of this year president biden said he was looking for a supreme court nominee. this was, i recall, right after justice breyer announced that he would be stepping down and before he had announced who he might nominate, that he was