a little dramatic. but the legal point that he raises, there s a legitimate debate between using laws of war or due process rights is totally fair. that s a real debate in law and politics. he referred to all that. how that attached to her, i couldn t make heads or tails of, because he kept hitting her on, what about this or that? she said, i m not going to announce a new war policy on gitmo or ukraine. that s not my job in the circuit court, as a lawyer, or in the supreme court. and i thought senator hirono made a good point, a lot of good, conservative libertarians said it was good to represent guantanamo detainees, that s what the american system is supposed to be about. that was in a sense a riposte to
0 facts, i m applying the law in as neutral and consistent a manner as i can. because that is the duty and requirement of the judicial oath. i m also very conscious of the limits of judicial authority, of the restrictions that exist in the law to prevent me as a judge from becoming a policymaker. this means that i carefully scrutinize my jurisdiction. it means that i look at the text and focus on the text and the intentions of the legislatures that drafted that provision. or the intention of the framers that put forward that constitutional principle. it means i m looking at precedent if i was fortunate enough to be confirmed to the supreme court, i would be upholding the principles as i consider the precedents, and making sure that the court is putting forward consistent and predictable rulings. you re watching msnbc s live coverage of the confirmation hearing of judge ketanji brown jackson. this is ari melber. we ll continue our live coverage here on the beat. soon we ll be joined