[inaudible] senator blumenthal. Thank you very much. Thank you for being back. You very much, mr. Chairman, thank you for being back, your honor, and thank you to your family as well. I want to begin by saying, perhaps not surprisingly to you, that i was really disappointed by your responses to a number of my colleagues most recently on the coons issue of whether you would purchase fate in a decision involving the upcoming election if you were confirmed. I continue to believe that if you were to participate in a decision involving that enduring,it would do explosive damage to the court. I think you know it would be wrong, not because of anything you have done. Fact, i am not raising the issue of whether you have done any sort of deal or commitment because of what donald trump has and my republican colleagues, because they have indelibly put at issue your integrity through their statements. The president has said that he is putting you on the court as the ninth justice, so you can decid
Weeks ago, he said also on twitter that it would be a big win if the Supreme Court strikes down the health law. Question, do you think we should take the president at his word when he says his nominee will do the right thing and overturn the Affordable Care act . Senatorrrett klobuchar, i cant really speak to what the president has set on twitter. He hasnt said any of that to me. What i can tell you is what i have told your colleagues earlier today is that no one has elicited for me any commitment in a case or even brought up a commitment in a case. Im 100 committed to Judicial Independence from political pressure, so whatever Peoples Party platforms or campaign promises, the reason why judges have life tenure is to insulate them from those pressures. I take my oath seriously to follow the law. I have not precommitted nor what i precommit to decide a case any particular way. Sen. Klobuchar i think this life tenure, this idea that you have a job for life makes this even more important f
Criticism and as i am barked on my own legal career i resolved to maintain that same perspective theres a tendency in our profession to treat the practice of law as all consuming while losing sight of Everything Else but that makes for a shallow and unfulfilling life i worked hard as a lawyer and as a professor i owed that to my clients to my students and to myself but i never let the law define my identity or crowd out the rest of my life a similar principle applies to the role of court courts have a vital responsibility to the rule of law which is critical to a free society but courts are not designed to solve every problem or right every wrong in our public life the policy decisions and value judgments of government must be made. The people the public should not expect courts to do so and courts should not try that is the approach that i have strived to follow as a judge on the 7th circuit and every case i have carefully considered the arguments presented by the parties discussed th
Please take it away. Having him muted myself, thank you for that introduction. Whether or not there is a consensus on your comment about me it certainly sounds like there is a consensus about the desirability at aspen so maybe we do that before too long and looked to getting together. Our panel is in fact the most distinguished and knowledgeable panel that we could provide to discuss the subject on the privacy regulations and very timely. One of the problems with giving talks and making remarks and addressing International Privacy developments is you can prepare the remarks three or four weeks earlier you would have to do it all again. Its a Constant Development and here we are going to be talking on the union back in july and the kind of counterpoint of the rebuttal responding to the decision, the doj, the department of commerce and we are now honored and pleased to report theres also the Privacy International decision that we expect will be addressing the court of justice this last w
Lines. That means for democrats, 2027488000. Republicans, we want to hear from you at 2027488001. Is endants, your line independents, your line is 2027488002. You can text us your opinions at 2027488003. And we are always reading your opinions on facebook and twitter cspanwj. President trump is expected to reveal his pick for the Supreme Court later today at the white house, and several news organizations are reporting the picked to be federal judge Amy Coney Barrett. In fact, we will read a couple of paragraphs from the latest bloomberg story announcing their sourcing on the cake, heres what they said President Trump has told associates he will nominate amy barrett to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that could cement conservative control of the judiciary weeks before election day. If confirmed by the senate, barrett in the 48, would become the third justice appointed to the ninemember high court by trump. She is no