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Affirmative action. nbc justice correspondent pete williams joins me now. take us through the cases of the potential outcome. the two cases, you re right, are from a private university, harvard, and one of the nation s oldest public universities, the university of north carolina at chapel hill. in both cases, students for fair admissions, a group is challenging the use of race-conscious admissions policies. the supreme court has said repeatedly, most recently a seminole decision in 2002 that was more or less upheld six years ago that universities can consider a student s race as one among many factors in trying to achieve a diverse student body. but the challengers here say that s an amorphous concept. if universities want to get a diverse student body, students of different experiences and qualifications, they should look specifically at those things and not use race as a proxy. so the reason it s a bad sign for defenders of affirmative action, andrea, is the court has ....
The president could have avoided all of this by picking a senate confirmed position if he was so frustrated with the deputy attorney general, he could have picked the solicitor general or an assistant attorney general, and there would not have been all of this fuss, and potentially put the president s legal agenda into peril. to those who say, you shouldn t prejudge what matthew whitaker will do regarding mueller, once he s in this different office. how do you get past what he s said publicly, for instance, challenging the legitimacy of one of the first supreme court decisions, marbury versus madison? i don t know mr. whitaker, and he served as a u.s. attorney in the bush administration in iowa, and as far as i know, served well. the statements he made on the senate questionnaire were head spinning. the seminole decision that says that the courts can review the ....
Need a break. in the meantime i would anticipate a break about 30 minutes for lunch time and hope for the members of the committee i have not made up my mind on this yet but we do have a vote scheduled at noon and i m sorry. ok. two votes at noon. it might be appropriate to use that period of time for our lunch break. i ll make a decision on that later on. so and to accommodate you because you re the person who has to sit there and answer questions so whatever your needs are you let us know. i started yesterday morning, judge and audience, with justice scalia s comments that our ....
Independence. he said i have a job. he embraced his judicial philosophy was and i give the same answer. i decide cases. it s a good philosophy for a judge. i listen to the arguments made, i read the briefs put to me and i listen to my colleagues carefully and listen to the lawyers in the well. this experience has reminded me what it s like to be a lawyer in the well. it s easier to ask the questions, i find as a judge, then to have the answers as a lawyer in the well. so i take the process the judicial process very seriously. i go through it step by step and keeping an open mind for the entire process as best i humanly can and leave all the other stuff at home. and i make a decision based on ....
Absolutely nothing to do with the good job of a judge. let me ask you about citizens united. in this case the supreme court held the government cannot expend political expenditure by a nonprofit corporation. do you agree with that decision? i d give the same response. people have their views personally about lots of supreme court decisions and about a lot of other things. we re all human beings. i get that. i m not an algorithm. they haven t yet replaced judges with algorithms though i think ebay s trying and maybe successfully. we re all human beings but the judge s job is to put that stuff aside and approach the law and part of the precedent of the united states supreme court i m sworn as a sitting judge to give ....