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duke university historian professor nancy maclean, author of the new book, democracy in chains: the deep history of the radical right s stealth plan for america. maclean also uncovers the instrumental role the late libertarian economist james buchanan played in the right s campaign to eliminate unions, suppress voting, and privatize schools. buchanan was an economist to train at the university of chicago and went on to a number of virginia institutions over the years. he won the nobel prize in 1986 for his original contributions to our understanding of political economy. it was james buchanan who taught charles koch for capitalism to thrive, democracy must be in chains. amy: president trump says the environmental protection agency will roll back and obama policy environmental policy. pres. trump: the so-called waters of the united states rule is one of the worst examples of federal regulation and it has truly run amok. amy: this comes as the intercept reports the pe ....
have about the precedent absolutely nothing to do with a good job of a judge. sen. grassley: let me ask you about citizens united. in this case, the supreme court held that the government cannot restrict independent political expenditure by a nonprofit corporation. do you agree with the decision? judge gorsuch: senator from i would give you the same response. i know people have their views personally about lots of supreme court decisions, and about a lot of other things. we are all human beings. i get that. i m not an algorithm. they have not yet replaced judges with algorithms. i think ebay is trying, and maybe successfully. we all human beings, but the job is to put that aside and approach the law as you find it, and that is part of the precedent of the united states supreme court that i am sworn as a sitting judge to give the full weight and respect to do president due precedent. weregrassley: those cases 5-4 decisions so let me ask you about one that was unanimous ....
opening statements and then two days over 20 hours of questioning by the committee. today will feature outside witnesses both those in favor and opposed to the nominee. today s hearing is expected to last into the afternoon and a reminder, you can watch all of this week s testimony online any time at cspan.org just type neil gorsuch into the search bar. right now you re watching live coverage of the senate judiciary committee on c-span3. good morning to everybody whose here and especially those who have prepared for testimony today. we welcome everybody on what i think will be the final day of judge gorsuch s confirmation hearing. we ve already heard two days of impressive testimony from the nominee. i think he s shown great command of the law and i think he has showed a humility with his humble delivery and i think people learned a lot about our not only our political system but our judicial system with what s going on the last three days. today will hear from a num ....
online cspan.org. here s a look back at the proceedings from today. the next panel will be judge taha, ms. masameno, judge henry, mr. jaffer, judge cain, mr. perkins, ms. bresack and mr. calamine. if i pronounced anyone s name wrong, correct me when you testify. i m sorry, i thought maybe you weren t here. okay. you are obviously here. okay. would you do you swear that the testimony you re about to give before this committee will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god? i do. i ve seen positive response. so i think please seat and i we never get everybody to honor the five minute rule. if you see the red light come on and you can summarize in about 30 seconds or so, it would be very much appreciated because i m sure that there will be some questions of some of you and so we want to move things along, but i think i m going to do it in the way you re seated there from my left to my right so would you start out, judge. i m please ....
where the committee heard from members of the american bar association, sear air sierra club and law clerks. this is six hours. good morning to everybody who is here and especially those who have prepared for testimony today. we welcome everybody on the what i think will be the final day of judge gorsuch s confirmation hearing. we have already heard two days of impressive testimony from the nominee. i think he has sewn great command of the law. and i think he has showed a humility with his humble delivery, and i think people learned a lot about not only our mitt cal political system and our judicial system with what has gone on. today we ll hear from a number of outside witnesses. we ll hear from a number of distinguished witnesses, both in support and in opposition to the nominee. they will all speak to the qualifications to be a supreme court justice. i look forward to hearing from all the witnesses today. let me modify this a little bit because i m going to s ....