Hearing will come to order. I welcome everybody to this hybrid hearing. Both Ranking Member mister heiss and myself have wanted to have hearings resume in person. Especially when we are in session i made a promise to mister heiss that i would fight for that and today is the fruit of that effort i believe when we were in session, to the extent possible, protecting everybodys health and safety, we can and should be meeting like this. At least in hybrid form those members who are not comfortable or who physically cannot join us in the hearing room are more than welcome to join us through the web. We are happy to have them. We ask everybody, when they are not speaking, to wear a mask that is the guidance and the capitol hill position. That is the guidance of the chairwoman of this committee. It protects everybody i really appreciate that cooperation. Let me see. For members appearing remotely, just a few reminders before i get my Opening Statement. House rules require that we see you so pl
Do we ask everyone to turn on their cameras . Were getting ready to get started. The hearing will come to order. I welcome everybody to this hybrid hearing. Both ranks member mr. Hysse and myself have wanted to have hearings resume in person especially when we are in session. I made a promise that i would fight for that, and today is the fruit of that effort. I believe when were in session protecting everybody, those who are not comfortable or physically cannot join us in the hearings room, are more than welcome to join us through web i no noor. We ask everybody when they were not speaking, to wear a mask. I really appreciate that cooperation of for members appears remotely. House rules require that we see you, so police have your cameras turned on at all times during the course of the hearing. If they can let us you can use the chat function to send a request. And if that doesnt work, you can unmute and seek recognition. These arent ideal circumstances, but we are in the midst of a pa
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Well get started. Good morning, everyone ip im elizabeth slattery, legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation and this is a panel on the past Supreme Court term. So the Supreme Courts next oh, im sorry. The top one . Okay, there we go. The Supreme Courts next term starts . Just a few weeks but were here to reflect on the past term. I submit that the october term 2018 will more likely be remembered for Justice Brett kavanaughs confirmation hearings than for any particular case the court decided, and its too early to make sweeping statements about the impact of president Donald Trumps nominees to the court, though the rapid destruction of america, their opponents foresaw has yet to occur. Justices Brett Kavanaugh and neil gorsuch have however lived up to the chief justices declaration that we do not have obama judges or trump judges, bush judges or clinton judges. Like their predecessors, kavanaugh and gorsuch are their own men at times bucking expectations of how a trump judge will vote. T