Senator mcconnell thank you for joining us today. For eight years we had an administration that had a particular approach to judges that could best be described as the empathy standard. President obama said on a number of occasions that he wanted judges who had empathy for parties. Well the problem with that, if youre not the party for whom the judge has empathy, youre in for a pretty rough ride this administration, the trump administration, has taken the approach, the rather quaint approach, that the job of a judge is to try to interpret the law as its written. Justice scalia used to say if youre not uncomfortable occasionally with the outcome you reach, youre not a very good judge. Justice gorsuch said, judges dont wear red they dont wear blue, they wear black. And so we are this week going to circuit subjects. Chairman grassley has done an extraordinary job of processing these judges and getting them out on the Senate Calendar and therefore available for us to move forward. And that
Religious liberty advocates. Democrats questioned whether her personal views would override her legal judgment. This is the five minutes. 35 minutes. Senator mcconnell thank you for joining us today. For eight years we had an administration that had a particular approach to judges that could best be described as the empathy standard. President obama said on a number of occasions that he wanted judges who had empathy for parties. Well the problem with that, if youre not the party for whom the judge has empathy, youre in for a pretty rough ride this administration, the trump administration, has taken the approach, the rather quaint approach, that the job of a judge is to try to interpret the law as its written. Justice scalia used to say if youre not uncomfortable occasionally with the outcome you reach, youre not a very good judge. Justice gorsuch said, judges dont wear red they dont wear blue, they wear black. And so we are this week going to confirm circuit subjects. Chairman grassley
President obama said on a number of occasions that he wanted judges that had empathy for parties. Well, the problem with that, if youre not the party for whom the judge has empathy, youre in for a pretty rough ride. This administration, the trump administration, has taken the approach, the rather quaint approach that the judge of a judge is try to interpret the law as its written. Justice scalia used to say if youre not uncomfortable occasionally with the outcome youve reached, youre not a very good judge. Justice gorsuch said, judges dont wear red, dont wear blue, they wear black. We are this week going to confirm four circuit junction. Chairman grassley has done an extraordinary job of processing the judges and getting them out and available for us to move forward and thats what we intent to do beginning this week. We often hear our democratic friends talking about the war on women, three or four judges that will be before the senate this week are women. We are going to lead off with
EDWARDSVILLE - On behalf of the Circuit Judges of the Third Judicial Circuit, Chief Judge Stephen A. Stobbs announced today that John P. Hackett was selected to fill the associate