Prolife restrictions, this is a way to abortions in states that are trying to protect unborn life. Thank you. Thank, you mister chairman. Id say my time is expired. Senator thank, you mister chairman. Doctor scott says that miss we will leave this here, grow a site. We take you live now to capitol hill. Two irs to follow an investigation into the biden family. And the Oversight Committee. Now in order. I want to welcome everyone here today. Without objection, the chair may declare a recess at anytime. Without objection, chairman of the ways and Means Committee, mr. Jason smith of missouri, is waved on to the committee for the purpose of making an Opening Statement at questioning the witnesses in todays committee hearing. I want to thank chairman smith and chairman jordan for their cooperation and working with the Oversight Committee on this investigation. This is an important joint effort that shows the American People that accountability matters regardless of your last name. For this
Lectures about upholding our institutions and protecting democracy, but just as often, they find a way to undertake some new reckless attack against the courts and rule of law. Im proud of how our nations highest court has weathered these latest baseless attempts to attack its authority. I believe in the integrity and honesty of all nine justices all nine of them. They should pay the partisan grandstanding no mind at all. This meeting of the Senate Judiciary committee will come to order. Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee Considers the topic of Supreme Court Ethics Reform. Being a federal judge is a position of great honor and power, but above all, it is Public Service. We entrust judges with administering equal justice under the law. It is critical to our democracy that the American People have confidence that judges cannot be bought or influenced and that they are serving the public interest, not their own personal interests. Over the course of several decades, congress and the Ju
americans dead. this morning, the president and first lady laid flowers at the tops market where, as you can see here, a make shift memorial has been growing. during his remarks, biden blasted the surge in white supremacy, and it motivated him to run for office three years ago. police say it s that surge that helped to radicalize a white teenager to commit this mass murder in buffalo. white supremacy is a poison. it s a poison. it really is. running through our body politic. it s been allowed to fester and grow right in front of our eyes. no more, i mean, no more. we need to say as clearly and forcefully as we can that the ideology of white supremacy has no place in america. moments ago, the mayor of buffalo spoke to reporters. he said that the president and the first lady met with the families individually, and the mayor condemned the hate that investigators say was behind the killings. the level of hatred in the heart and head of this individual is stunning. it s st
The Oversight Committee will reconvene. Were now back in order. The chair recognizes miss crockett for five minutes. Thank you so much, mister chairman. The problem with going this late in the game is that theres so much we put out there, youre kind of all over the place. Just rock with me for a little bit. First of all, i want to get the elephant out of the room. Just to be clear, you provided deposition testimony and in your deposition, neither one of you ever stated that President Joe Biden interfered with your investigations. Correct . This transcript does not include that. The transcript does not include. Thank you or does it include whether garland interfered with your investigations. Correct . The transcript doesnt say that. The reason i say that is because the insinuation that the committee is trying to make, or at least one side of the committee is trying to make is that for some reason, there was interference. My colleagues continue to make sure that they outline the fact tha
Circuit judge, you could look at what he had decided. We could look, mr. President , you, and i and other members of the senate could look at what he decided and anticipate what his record would look like and it makes a difference. I have no doubt that President Trump will continue to nominate judges who will rule as Justice Scalia, the last vacancy created with the unfortunate loss of Justice Scalia who served on the Supreme Court for 26 years after the person that nominated him left the white house and 13 years after president reagan died. So the legacy of what happens here is important. Justice scalia became profound in his sense that the judge the work of the court was not to decide what the legislature should have done. The work of the court was to decide what the law said and what the constitution said and there are ways to change the law and there are ways to amend the constitution. But a person who is on the court needs to look at what the constitution and the law say. Thats wh