to the supreme court. i pressured, i said please appoint my friend steve breyer. steve has been a moderate liberal. i fear that he may be replaced. not liberal, but a hard left person. that will be difficult to get confirmed, because if you get even one or two democrats not confirming, voted not to confirm, it will not go through. i hope the president picks the most qualified person, somebody is qualified as stephen breyer. and i hope that that person serves for a long time. stephen breyer was going to resign. he didn t need the pressure, he comes out of politics. he was the chief counselor to the judiciary committee. he was not going to let a republican appoint the successor. he was not to do a a ginsberg. but people put pressure on him,
this in perspective. don t due to the democratic nominee what democrats did to cavanaugh and other republican nominees. professor, let s get your take. if he were to announce he wants a jewish justice on the supreme court, that would clearly be unconstitutional. it explicitly says no religious test shall ever be permitted in any office under the united states. i think the same thing is true with race and gender. i don t think the president should ever insult the nominee by same, you are not the most qualified person coming at us the most qualified black woman president pair there is numbers of qualified black women, black men, white men, asian men. pick the most qualified. look, i ve known steve breyer for almost 60 years. we worked for the same justice, we served on the same faculty. i helped him get his nomination