breyer, scalia road show looks like? what were they arguing about? well, my understanding is they were argumenting or presenting two different viewpoints as to how the constitution should be interpreted. i would say just as an aside before talking about their positions that while i have been on the bench for nine plus years, the issue of constitutional interpretation in that sense doesn t come up very often. it comes up to the supreme court for sure. but it doesn t come up very often in the lower courts. what justice scalia and justice breyer i believe were debating was the justice scalia s notion of originalism meaning that the words of the constitution should be interpreted as they were
adopted by the branch of government that has that authority under the constitution. so i guess i m surprised after nine years on the bench that, i mean, you re super smart. nobody disputes that. and having worked for justice breyer and knowing of some of the philosophical arguments he and justice kagan had, it seems surprising that you wouldn t be able to reflect on the nachl of those disagreements because to say it depends on the particular case, that s fine, but they have different philosophical approaches. maybe another way to get at it. i think justice breyer again for whom you clerked and justice scalia used to travel together and have lively debate circuit conversations. can you tell the american people a little bit about what breyer, scalia road show looked like?
0 first of two long and intense days of questioning from members of the senate judiciary committee began this morning with democrats using their questions to allow jackson to issue a rebuttal to republican accusations that she has been soft on crime and republicans pressing her on her record as a judge and public defender and bringing up a whole host of conservative hobby horses. things like critical race theory. jackson has tried to stay above the fray in her responses. early on in the hearing, she told democratic senator, dick durbin, quote, i tried to stay in my lane. along with me are claire mccaskill and msnbc political analyst with danielle holly walker, dean and professor at howard school of law and joyce vance, law professor at university of alabama as well as an msnbc legal analyst. we have a few minutes before we go back to the hearing. claire, i want to start with you. just some of the fireworks that happened earlier today. just in the last hour or so. senator ted cruz arriv