Until june 25th of this year when we had these two companion decisions that came down. King is precisely exactly like webber. The majority opinion said look you cant look at forward in isolation and give it a broader meaning because the broader purpose was to give subsidies to poor people. The precise facts in king were as follows the statute dealing with subsidies, said they are available for purchases made off an exchange established by the state under statute 131211 of the statute and the question was what if you made an exchange off of an exchange of the federal government under 1321 and does that qualify and in other words does state mean state. Which is not a question for the nonjudicial mind but was one that bee fuddled six members of the Supreme Court. And they analyzed it in precisely the way they had done in webber. Listen the broader purpose was to provide substance and were not going to be Fuddy Duddies and worry about language or exactly what congress has done. I wont walk
Administration and president a graduate of yale college and yale law school, judge kavanaugh currently teaches at harvard, yale, and georgetown. Throughout legal circles, he is considered a judges judge. A true leader among his peers. Hes a brilliant jurist with a clear and effective writing style universally regarded as one of the finest and sharpest legal minds of our time. Some background now on judge kavanaugh in addition to what you just heard the president said. In addition to being a graduate of yale, yale law school. Hes a former clerk to Anthony Kennedy and that is critical. He served as an associate counsel to ken starr during white water. He was staff secretary to president george w. Bush and served on the d. C. Circuit of the federal bench since 06. He married the personal secretary to president bush 43. Together they have two daughters. Hes a catholic who would maintain a twothirds catholic majority on the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh is 53. Hes a product of d. C. And maryland
this is in many ways not the beginning of the 2020 race, but it certainly is related to it. but the court certainly does have a tendency to surprise. i say to those who are about to set their hair on fire, at least wait until morning. of the justices that nixon appointed justin renquist recused himself. the other three voted to make nixon turn over the tapes, which was the precipitating event that actually led to nixon s resignation. three of his appointees went that way. earl warren went in eisenhower wasn t quite sure what he was going to get. things do unfold. these are human institutions. if you re really concerned about judge kavanaugh, you need to get out and elect someone else president.