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Years. Now it has come to a functional standstill. As noncontroversial nominations some of which were approved out of the committee by overwhelming votes, the majority of republicans, majority of democrats, they languished on the executive calendar. Now our colleagues on the other side of the aisle did their best to slow the pace of confirmations when the senate was under democratic leadership. And now theyre sluggishly moving nominations under a senate they control. And, mr. President its culminated in the irresponsible partisan blockade of president Obamas Supreme Court pick. Lets talk about some real numbers here. More than a year into this new congress more than a year into this new congress the Republican Leadership has allowed only 17 judges to be confirmed. Okay . How many months do we have here . We have 12 in the last year of this congress. We now have, ....
Eligibility, for federal benefits. Justice alito the only federal none, those two statutory references. Gen. Verrilli as i said, that is the tale on the dog. If i can go to the merit. Repeatedly, you have heard it referred to statutory observation, that is flat wrong. There is a district case and he can read the opinion in that case, which we referred to, is describing as extra statutory paid the other key point that statutory. The other key point mother theory about the scope of you can get Work Authorization is that either congress has to say to get Work Authorization. Decideneed to get dhs to whether people in this category can get Work Authorization. Forget about deferred action, there are millions of people to now,ork authorization under existing law, who could not get it if that were the proper interpre ....
And by the way, youll get a pretty good b. S. Monitor as you watch this more and more, who really means what they say. The key is does the person who is running for office saying what theyre going to do, if they get elected, do they actually do it . Thats really what matters. Is it just fluff . Is it just bluster, or are they actually pushing the cause, fighting for the idea . And the last point i would say is get beyond emotion. Dont base your decisions on emotions or make your arguments based on emotion. Go deeper than that. Go to reason. Rita quinas here at georgetown, base your decisions based on reason, logic, principle, and find out if a person actually has that. If theyre taking their decisions and filtering through a set of principles that offer solutions so that theyre going in a consistent direction, so theyre not pandering or being simply a populist or simply running in circles. That, to me, is what i found is helpful when youre trying to judge whether or not a person has ea ....
Craig i wrote about his 16 years after the presidency. Theres a lot of great books about the last years of president s. William manchester of course wrote death of a president. No one had ever done a book on the reagan post presidency, and its an idea that came from my younger son, mitchell, who was researching on a previous book i did about reagan. I had all these binders in the kitchen. His job was to highlight every time his name was mentioned. He was 11 at the time. He asked, dad, has anyone ever written a book about reagan after he was president . That was about five years ago, and the birth of last act. Brian was the most important moment in this book . Craig well, i interviewed dr. Roger peele, the head of the psychiatric unit at Saint Elizabeth hospital. He told me how reagan reached out to him because he wanted to have a private meeting with John Hinckley six months ....