the president himself as a candidate or some of his advisers. you know, is that is that what judges should look at? i understand intent, you know. some of this can be subjective. is that the ultimate case of subjectivity here? isn t it a judge s job to just look at what s on the order itself? quite the opposite, chuck. courts routinely, in fact it s their responsibility to look beyond the four corners of a document. one can have an executive order or a law that, on its face, seems legitimate, but once you see the motivation behind it, if it has an unconstitutional motivation a court can and must strike it down. i realize we re in a higher profile issue. the president and national security. it s a different context for the public to say, that s pretty big. but for the court, that s their job to do it. where are we headed with this? this is going to be do you
judge. you know, so, i think it s both striking and it s also very good politics on gorsuch s part because one of the issues, especially now with his nomination, is how independent will he be as a justice of the man who appointed him. and here he is telling the senators he disagrees with trump on a pretty high profile issue. it is pretty extraordinary. you ve covered the courts, jeffrey, for a long time. to hear a president demean federal judges and indeed the whole process, if you will, of oral arguments before an appellate court like we heard last night as demoralizing. whatever words he uses. yeah, it is unusual. but i have to say, i am somewhat with president trump on this one. you know, judges are very powerful people who are accountable to no one. so, i think criticism of judges is perfectly appropriate. barack obama criticized the citizens union decision in his
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deal with issues that still affect me, a lot of my issues from back then don t affect me anymore. i m not saying that they are gone. but i know how to deal with them now. the reason for the sex offender program is such a high profile issue, and, quite frankly, the other reason is that sex offenders are going to get out of prison anyway. so we we are doing our best to rehabilitate them. because it is relatively new, we don t have statistics as far as recidivism rate, but we do know that we re giving them the tools to survive without re-offending out in society. it is liberating. i mean, it is like a weight off my shoulders. i m not hiding anymore. i found out that i m not the only one. historically in all prison settings sex offenders are low man on the totem pole, so to speak. inmates can t tolerate sex offenders. they really don t even like
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