There s probably other things you don t need to go into detail, but you have president president bush appointed you. are there other cases that there s been other cases, presumably, you ve ruled against the administration or the person that appointed you. absolutely, mr. chairman. there were a slew of cases on everything from freedom of information act to some of the administrative law cases. okay. the hamdan one comes to mind because of the importance of the case. i ruled it was unlawful. yeah. now, did anyone ask you to make any promises or assurances at all about the way you d rule in certain cases? no.
Of their constituents care about. roe v. wade obviously is huge in addition to executive power and i would expect also this notion of just beyond the executive power related to donald trump, also how activist a judge is he going to be to unravel long-standing precedent on other issues, as well? there s an age discrimination case coming up before the court, for example, on whether states and localities, whether localities subject to age discrimination cases if they have 20 employees or fewer. these matter to people in the daily lives. i would expect to hear some of that. i absolutely agree that republicans jobs here to establish that pretd kavanaugh is not an activist judge and will pay attention to precedent. it will be interesting to see if democrats come hard. you have both senator durbin and senator leahy who remembered when brett kavanaugh was not so
As if you re making all the decisions, as i said yesterday, i m joining a team of nine if i were fortunate enough to be confirmed and that means something. it means something in sports. it means something in judging. i have not been making decisions by myself. every case is in a panel of at least three judges and you learn from each other when you re deciding cases. you work with each other when you re deciding cases. and so, having c [ shouting ] that s very important. because those great moments that i was talking about at the beginning like united states versus nixon, like brown v. board, the court came together in unanimous decision and the uninam i have tried to be a very
The national part, proportional representation. this body with two senators from each state represents, in many ways, the federal part. each state represents e ed equa. the federalism system, by which the states are allowed to regulate local matters, and some of the commerce clause cases, such as the united states versus lopez, united states versus morrison, reinforces the idea that there is a core of authority that is exclusively in the province of the states and beyond the scope of the federal government. the tenth amendment, we the tenth amendment reinforces the structure of federalism that s in our constitutional system. it s important always to remember the role of the states in our constitutional systems. and it is important to recognize as individual citizens, something we often forget, particularly in a process like this, our rights and liberties are protected by the federal
So that given the current climate and the mueller investigation i think is something that the democrats will want to question him about. he did say in this law review article, by the way, he didn t mean the president is above the law. he said, and i quote, if the president does something dasdardally there s the impeachment process. abortion will get a lot of questions. he wrote a case on abortion indicating he might be more conservative than justice kennedy. he was in favor of the core holding of roe. remember, he did write a decision striking down partial birth abortion. there are roughly 13 cases out there right now in the federal courts. a dozen or so at least, some from kentucky, arkansas, missouri and other states that invite the courts to uphold laws that would restrict access. so, i think, you know, we always get a lot of questions about roe v. wade and certainly getting them this time.