His selection and his Upcoming Senate confirmation process and how he might influence the highest court in the land. Heres how you can give us a call. 1 for republicans. For democrats, 2027488000. For independents, 2027488002. If you want to send us a tweet, you can do so and twitter. Com cspanwj post on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. Is currently a judge on the 10th circuit and for Justice Byron white and anthony kennedy. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991 and has a doctorate in philosophy from oxford university. He has been on the Circuit Court since 2006. Many parallels being made between this judge and the former and late judge Antonin Scalia. Samenessoday about the between the two. Judge gorsuch is like Justice Scalia and considered a talented writer and he hasnt been afraid to draft opinions that raise the profile of difficult legal issues. Just a bit of the philosophy of the judge. We will be learning more about him as we go along. We want to get your though
Here in d. C. Lets turn it over to monika now for your first look of traffic on this friday morning. Good morning, everybody. Ive been trying to make some phone calls this morning about a bunch of construction thats been going on in virginia. Mark you called me or text me, emailed me yesterday about construction in alexandria closing off the ramp from quaker lane to get on to 395. I made tons of phone calls this morning and i cant get the information about when thats cleared up. So if youre just heading out the door, be aware of that use your detour this morning, mark. Dale city to woodbridge youre fine on to 95 in lorton, newington and springfield. Well take a live look there on the northbound side where were in great shape. The lanes are open and the hov lanes are clearing up right now. You can see the flashing lights at the top side of the screen opening up those lines as we speak. Back over to the maps and this time on the north side. No issues to report on 270 out of gaithersburg,
Good morning, delia. Reporter good morning, andrea, mike. I noticed, mike, you were a little excited, you had a little enthusiasm in your voice when you were listing all the foods that have trans fats. [ no audio ] microwave popcorn this ban the fda says is going to take some time to implement simply because the companies literally have to come up with brand new recipes. Trarns fat comes from trans fat comes from partially hydrogenated Vegetable Oil and is in most fried foods and frozen pies, pop correspondent, refrigerated biscuits. In many cases it not only improves the flavors of those foods but extends the shelf life. But heres the bad news. Trans fats raise bad cholesterol, lowers good cholesterol. The centers for Disease Control says it leads to Heart Disease and thousands of deaths every year. I think its good. We could save about 7,000 lives and prevent about 20,000 heart attacks in this country every year. So thats why we think this is an important step. Reporter its not all b
President trump on this decision. Welcome to the program. Glad to have you. Great to be here. Sean you and a lot of prominent judicial scholars were asked to look for certain candidates that fit this meaning of a constitutionalist, and originalist. Maybe some americans are hearing this term for the first time. How would you best define those terms and differentiate a regionalism from Judicial Activism . First of all, the way to think about it is a judge has a deep sense of fairness and a sense of impartiality. When he is grounded in text and Original Meaning Of The Constitution, she is putting the text and the original meeting ahead of any political predisposition he may have. Thats the way a judge cases. Fairly and partially without regard to your own predispositions or prejudices. Sean a judicial activist assembly of a liberal put a liberal would want on the court . Somebody believes that the constitution is a living and Breathing Document that they have the right to almost legislate
Apology. Dow . Yeah. Usually you do. I said he just keeps repeating the same thing over and over again. Its like going to a nostalgia show from the 1970s where the fans know what the next song is going to be. You know, willie, yesterday, that wasnt a that was new. That was like khan yeanye dropp new album. He dropped a new mixed tape and your like, what . And he was not angry yesterday. He was a man in his element. He was enjoying himself for 81 minutes, didnt want to leave. Looked at his advisers and saying, should we do a couple more . He was all over the place. Clearly all over the place about china, iran, about what he said about women. I know well get all into it. It was even by his standards, a stunning performance. Mr. Kurd, a new cheese treat from hasbro. He called a kurdish reporter mr. Kurd . Yeah. Mr. Kurd, youre next. Mr. Kurd apparently liked it. So i dont know. John, you know what was interesting was he usually brings this sort of level of whatever you want to call it to