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one is justice. washington was very keen to, always cite authority for things and chief justice marshall didn't about that so much. you know, opinions, if you read them often have, no citations at all, very few. they're written a little more like an essay, which in some ways them more persuasive because they seem to just the truth. right. i don't even need to cite anything. right. but washington was more concerned about finding authority for things. okay. however, a couple of circuit opinions that he wrote you can find passages that rather well to that others wrote on the marshall court later. actually, martin versus hunter's will see is one example in that there is a part of stories opinion that tracks very closely to one of washington circuit opinions that was also about the fact that state authorities could not defy federal courts. so, you know, suggests a certain input there or there. but yeah, that that that's kind of the most i say about that. comment on whether george washington refused to end
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but did justice thomas recuse? no. now take justice samuel alito, who has no shortage of billionaire associates of his own. after billionaire paul singer gave justice alito a luxury fishing trip on a private jet, a contribution that was also hidden from the public and the court, justice alito not only refused to recuse but changed his mind regarding his gracious host's case. just a short time after accepting the lavish undisclosed trip from singer, alito joined the court in reversing its previous position and took up singer's case. he did not recuse. justice alito also refused to recuse in the case itself. ultimately leading to a ruling that netted singer $2.4 billion. and that ruling did not just enrich singer. it also structurally tilted the playing field further away from working people and toward the vulture funds siphoning money and resources away from the communities that need them most. could a reasonable american question whether or not justice alito could have acted impartially in this case given his personal
but did justice thomas recuse? no. now take justice samuel alito, who has no shortage of billionaire associates of his own. after billionaire paul singer gave justice alito a luxury fishing trip on a private jet, a contribution that was also hidden from the public and the court, justice alito not only refused to recuse but changed his mind regarding his gracious host's case. just a short time after accepting the lavish undisclosed trip from singer, alito joined the court in reversing its...
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chief justice roberts: justice kagan? justice kagan: mr.eb, i want to go through your framework and make sure i understand it. so, first, on the small category of things that you say have absolute protection -- mr. dreeben: yes. justice kagan: -- that they are core executive functions -- mr. dreeben: yes. small categories? what are those mr. dreeben: pardon power. justice pardon. veto? mr. dreeben: veto, foreign recognition, appointments. congress cannot say you can't appoint a federal judge who 't received, you know, a a certain age.a, hasn't ed there are a few other powers in the constitution. justice kagan: is commander in chief? mr. dreeben: commander in chief is -- is on st, but i want to add to my answer on that that ress has substantial authority in the national security realm. congress declares war. it raises armies. it has power oe purse. that's more of a -- justice kagan: so that may be viewed as not really in that core set of functions which nobody has any power but the president over? mr. dreeben: yes. i think that there may be
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justice gorsuch, justice kavanaugh, justice barrett, and another joined the opinion. every time there was a i have to respond to that because that is something i do not agree with. it was the first time the court decided to try the world what brewing -- bruin meant. it gets to the point where why don't we just write something else at this point, but all of that takes time. >> on the topic of a lot of different decisions, what does that reflect about the court right now? justice kagan: we do not seem to coalesce all that easily in some cases, and as i said maybe bruin is a separate case, but the fact is there was a lot of this. i have one end of the spectrum view on this, and i know i do because i just looked at some statistics, and it is about different justices and how many separate opinions they have written, so this is not impressionistic. i am right down at the bottom not only on the current court but the courts for 100 years or something, so i think i have an atypical view of this question, end of the different justice was sitting in the chair you would get a dif
justice gorsuch, justice kavanaugh, justice barrett, and another joined the opinion. every time there was a i have to respond to that because that is something i do not agree with. it was the first time the court decided to try the world what brewing -- bruin meant. it gets to the point where why don't we just write something else at this point, but all of that takes time. >> on the topic of a lot of different decisions, what does that reflect about the court right now? justice kagan: we...
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but did justice thomas recuse? no. now take justice samuel alito, who has no shortage of billionaire associates of his own. after billionaire paul singer gave justice alito a luxury fishing trip on a private jet, a contribution that was also hidden from the public and the court, justice alito not only refused to recuse but changed his mind regarding his gracious host's case. just a short time after accepting the lavish undisclosed trip from singer, alito joined the court in reversing its previous position and took up singer's case. he did not recuse. justice alito also refused to recuse in the case itself. ultimately leading to a ruling that netted singer $2.4 billion. and that ruling did not just enrich singer. it also structurally tilted the playing field further away from working people and toward the vulture funds siphoning money and resources away from the communities that need them most. could a reasonable american question whether or not justice alito could have acted impartially in this case given his personal
but did justice thomas recuse? no. now take justice samuel alito, who has no shortage of billionaire associates of his own. after billionaire paul singer gave justice alito a luxury fishing trip on a private jet, a contribution that was also hidden from the public and the court, justice alito not only refused to recuse but changed his mind regarding his gracious host's case. just a short time after accepting the lavish undisclosed trip from singer, alito joined the court in reversing its...
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justice. justice. such as establishing a tribunal within the judicial conference to investigate and make recommendations. is there anything that would stop the justice from doingti that? >> i would think the chief justice would have broad administrative authority to doo that.ra i may choose to set up the process separately and execute through the process. hey he may wish to seek the majority vote just to get the support of the court in doing so. there is a lot of flexibility there i do not want to comment into much depth about that. he is the administrative chief of the supreme courtrt and he is the chair of the judicial conference. between those two offices he holds a broad judicial authority and the responsibility to two seat two with the judicial branch of government operates ethically and properly with accountability and transparency. he has those responsibilities and he has the tools to achieve them, i believe. >> thank you with that i yield back progress or johnson thank you for joining
justice. justice. such as establishing a tribunal within the judicial conference to investigate and make recommendations. is there anything that would stop the justice from doingti that? >> i would think the chief justice would have broad administrative authority to doo that.ra i may choose to set up the process separately and execute through the process. hey he may wish to seek the majority vote just to get the support of the court in doing so. there is a lot of flexibility there i do...
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justice thomas? >> in assessing the official acts of a president, do you differentiate between president acting as president and the prident acting as candidate? >> yes, we do. we don't dispute the blasinggame it has to be by objective determinations -- that is the most important point. >> did you in this litigation challenge the appointment of special counsel? >> not directly. we have done so in the southern district of florida case, and we agree with the analysis provided by attorney general meese and mukasey, and it points to an important issue. one of their arguments is that we his presumption of regularity. that runs into the reality we have here an extraordinary prosecutorial power exercised by someone who was never nonad by the president or confirmed by the senate at any time. we agree with th position. we haven't raised it yet in this case when it went up on appeal. >> justice alito? >> when you say that the official act should be expunged from the indictment, that in itself would notchve muc
justice thomas? >> in assessing the official acts of a president, do you differentiate between president acting as president and the prident acting as candidate? >> yes, we do. we don't dispute the blasinggame it has to be by objective determinations -- that is the most important point. >> did you in this litigation challenge the appointment of special counsel? >> not directly. we have done so in the southern district of florida case, and we agree with the analysis...
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he accepted the fact he was not chosen chief justice and he wanted to be an associate justice. he certainly, i would say, one of the workhorses along with james of the early supreme court. wilson lived in philadelphia and the capital of the united states was philadelphia so the supreme court met in philadelphia for nine of the 10 years. they met in new york the first year. wilson was always present when things happened and when things needed to be done in the capital or to take someone's place. he was very good about doing circuit duty for other people when he could. towards the end of his life when his debtors started to chase him the second past 1795, 1796 he had to leave philadelphia and go down south so that his creditors could not reach him. he had been in jail in new jersey been in jail in new jersey after his son sprang him loose. he is the only justice i know of who had ever been in jail. it was a very, very sad story. and he ended up in north carolina with a relatively new wife. his first wife died, i think in 1786. and james wilson went on circuit in boston, met this
he accepted the fact he was not chosen chief justice and he wanted to be an associate justice. he certainly, i would say, one of the workhorses along with james of the early supreme court. wilson lived in philadelphia and the capital of the united states was philadelphia so the supreme court met in philadelphia for nine of the 10 years. they met in new york the first year. wilson was always present when things happened and when things needed to be done in the capital or to take someone's place....
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justice kagan, the country is so lucky to have you as a justice. the fact you chose on the date of one of your biggest cases -- >> i didn't really choose it. [laughing] >> no, no, no. everything is choice. you could've said no. i arrived even up to 3:15 i wondered, and you put a smile on your face thinking over here. >> the country is lucky to have you as a judge. an esteemed court of appeals judge and a great chief judge now. so thank you for being the person sitting in the other chair. >> well, thank you so much for doing this, and thank you for your leadership on the court. >> thank you, everybody. [applause] >> thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> coming up home with agree secretary alejandro mayorkas joins press secretary karine jean-pierre at the white house briefing and will
justice kagan, the country is so lucky to have you as a justice. the fact you chose on the date of one of your biggest cases -- >> i didn't really choose it. [laughing] >> no, no, no. everything is choice. you could've said no. i arrived even up to 3:15 i wondered, and you put a smile on your face thinking over here. >> the country is lucky to have you as a judge. an esteemed court of appeals judge and a great chief judge now. so thank you for being the person sitting in the...
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justice thomas? justice alito? >> could we just briefly rev the layers of protection you think exists? i'm going to start with what the d.c. circud. the first layer of protection is that attorneys general and other justice department ays can be trusted to act in a professional and ethical manner. >> yes. >> how robust is that protection? the vast majority of attorneys general and justice department attorneys and we both served in the justice department for a long time are honorable people and they take their professional, ethical responsibilities seriously, but there have been exceptions both among attorneys general and federal prosecutors. there have been rare exceptions, justice alit of protection, i do think thisrs is the starting point and if the courts have concerns about the robustf it, i would suggest looking at the charges in the case. >> i'm going to talk about th in ttract because what is before us does involve this particular case, which is whatever we decide will apply to all future preside as for attor
justice thomas? justice alito? >> could we just briefly rev the layers of protection you think exists? i'm going to start with what the d.c. circud. the first layer of protection is that attorneys general and other justice department ays can be trusted to act in a professional and ethical manner. >> yes. >> how robust is that protection? the vast majority of attorneys general and justice department attorneys and we both served in the justice department for a long time are...
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justice alito and thomas. that is five justices.is those five who ultimately decided even the evidence of official acts couldn't be used to show what the president was up to when he used his official powers. because motive supposedly doesn't matter but motive is everything. whether a president gave a pardon in return for a bribe depends on whether he was doing it as a corrupt matter of whether he was giving a pardon because he thought someone deserved mercy. as justice barrett pointed out, you can't make sense of the quit without the quote but under the incoherent decision of the majority, you can prove the transfer of money that you can't prove anything about the pardon that was given in exchange. that's the kind of thing that makes this decision so incoherent and what makes it dangerous is that even even if we get over trumpism and the maga movement, we will have to rely on the good character of future presidents because the law will no longer serve as a source of inhibition. that is dangerous. that's a prescription for autocracy
justice alito and thomas. that is five justices.is those five who ultimately decided even the evidence of official acts couldn't be used to show what the president was up to when he used his official powers. because motive supposedly doesn't matter but motive is everything. whether a president gave a pardon in return for a bribe depends on whether he was doing it as a corrupt matter of whether he was giving a pardon because he thought someone deserved mercy. as justice barrett pointed out, you...
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justice alito cited it recently. your talk about the reason why federal court is necessary to provide a neutral form of interstate disputes. as you alluded to, i think, the camp suffered a very long, in 1794, at war with great britain. washington and hamilton asked him to go to england and he's not real enthused about that. but he agrees. he goes. i was thinking that in preparation for the day. in a sense, he sets a precedent there that then gets followed various other times in our history, for example, in 1876 when the justices agree to help resolve the election dispute or the 1960s agreeing to supervise the war commission. and they also set an important precedent on the other side in the neutrality crisis. washington and jefferson wanted the justices to answer a long list of abstract questions. and there was a lot of precedent for that. jay and the other justices, about it, said, no. that's not our job. we decide cases and controversy. in a sense, he will helps establish kind of what the court will not do it with t
justice alito cited it recently. your talk about the reason why federal court is necessary to provide a neutral form of interstate disputes. as you alluded to, i think, the camp suffered a very long, in 1794, at war with great britain. washington and hamilton asked him to go to england and he's not real enthused about that. but he agrees. he goes. i was thinking that in preparation for the day. in a sense, he sets a precedent there that then gets followed various other times in our history, for...
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it justice. thomas has expressed some mild interest but suggested it might be too late and it's one of those cases where the original understanding is clearly inconsistent with the majority decision made up let you talk about the significance of core field in whatever way you think best, but i have to ask you because i was so excited to remember the pursuit of happiness language and in core field, and then i found it in slaughterhouse as well where the decision says that the 14th amendment places under the guardianship of the national government a protection against monopolies, which are invasion of privileges which encroach on liberty of citizens to acquire property and pursue happiness, and we're voided common law. do you have any thoughts about whether this idea that pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety was a natural right was embraced at all on the early supreme court? no, they did not litigate anything like this throughout the only mention of it. was in calder v bull where there was a
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had 8 justices. don't know if you remember. >> guest: it was an interesting time for the court. i talked about this before. i thought there was something to be said about a court with an even number rather than an odd number of justices. the court's compromise where you don't think compromise is possible and sometimes it led to silly decision-making. we would find a way to agree on something that nobody cared about and nobody, the real question was not an important question. a ere were times it felt little bit silly but there were many more times when it felt as though it forced us to have a conversation that was useful and valuable that produced greater consensus. it meant even when people disagree profoundly, you find smaller stuff. if you ratchet down the importance of a case and a question you can usually find something. there is real value in that. making things smaller so you can agree on more and send a signal about the possibility of agreement. >> it was really not a supreme court, the lower
had 8 justices. don't know if you remember. >> guest: it was an interesting time for the court. i talked about this before. i thought there was something to be said about a court with an even number rather than an odd number of justices. the court's compromise where you don't think compromise is possible and sometimes it led to silly decision-making. we would find a way to agree on something that nobody cared about and nobody, the real question was not an important question. a ere were...
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justices.the early 30s really before fdr kind of changes so many things, he has famous laboratories of experimentation, he was a progressive and thought the states had a significant role to play with the new economic policies and social challenges. buten it is pretty fdr. in a way he's probably responding a little bit to lochner. do younk think there is a role r the states tota play or that was then and this is now and things are quite a bit different? i shouldn't be answering that question because you've written all the books about this. >> it's remarkable patients to take this long into the interview -- [laughter] to talk about the one thing i know something about. so, no i'm trying to pin down the role you play. >> you go first. >> the answer is yes. and we have just as many tricky problems as the country faced when brandeis was around and it's pretty dangerous to nationalize things to quickly, whether through legislation or court decisions. i think his idea -- it's important to point out he
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was written by justice kavanaugh joined by the chief justice and justice kagan. when the georgetown prep guys cannot agree. even more broadly this is an interesting division of the court. what i think it shows the most often think about the court as being a left/right court. there are other ways to think about the court. other was to think about the court more serious, more pregnant tests and sort of the division you are seeing here. the chief justice, and i think justice is not classically with the other three. get to results to make pragmatic sense of. even with this little bit of imperfection. i think some of the justices in the majority are more of the school the bread the team bus off the cliff if that's what it requires us to do. there are pros and cons to those interpretive methodology. my point is simply it is worth understanding there's another way to think about the justices in those terms then you are in simple left/right terms i promise of time for questions i will there's a couple of the cases i'd be happy to talk about where the court shockingly sai
was written by justice kavanaugh joined by the chief justice and justice kagan. when the georgetown prep guys cannot agree. even more broadly this is an interesting division of the court. what i think it shows the most often think about the court as being a left/right court. there are other ways to think about the court. other was to think about the court more serious, more pregnant tests and sort of the division you are seeing here. the chief justice, and i think justice is not classically...
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the three liberal justices dissenting. sonia sotomayor slamming the opinion saying it, quote, makes a mockery of the pins million that no man is above the law, closing with these chilling words, with fear for our democracy, i dissent. this ruling affecting not only trump but future presidents, calling into doubt our legal guard rheas and giving unprecedented power to the highest office in the country. joining me now is neal katyal and melissa murray. my thanks to both of you for joining me this evening. neal, i'd like to start with you and get your top lines. i know you were on air when this decision came out earlier this morning, and i want to get your thoughts now that you've had more time to digest it. >> no, i think, katie, the guardrails are off. our constitutional guardrails now are almost nonexistent when it comes to a big zone of presidential conduct. so it's a big win for donald trump. it was a big win even before the decision was released because the court delayed it for months and months so that trump couldn't b
the three liberal justices dissenting. sonia sotomayor slamming the opinion saying it, quote, makes a mockery of the pins million that no man is above the law, closing with these chilling words, with fear for our democracy, i dissent. this ruling affecting not only trump but future presidents, calling into doubt our legal guard rheas and giving unprecedented power to the highest office in the country. joining me now is neal katyal and melissa murray. my thanks to both of you for joining me this...
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justice sonia sotomayor read some disturbing scenarios. joining us now nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. first off, ken, has the special counsel commented yet? >> they have not, katy, and i'm told there are no plans for them to comment or issue a statement. >> so as you read through the opinion, what stood out to you? >> so, look, i think the big question here is how are official acts defined, and what kind of guidance did the supreme court offer for courts to tell the difference between an official act and a private act, and the answer is they offered some high level guidance, but left a lot of the details to the lower courts, and that's why you have justice sotomayor raising these dire scenarios, and then you have justice roberts in his opinion saying, oh, relax. that's not what we meant here. people can agree, even our own analysts on our network are not agreeing about exactly what the implications are. they did offer guidance of what the implications are for the trump case. what they said is the section o. c
justice sonia sotomayor read some disturbing scenarios. joining us now nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. first off, ken, has the special counsel commented yet? >> they have not, katy, and i'm told there are no plans for them to comment or issue a statement. >> so as you read through the opinion, what stood out to you? >> so, look, i think the big question here is how are official acts defined, and what kind of guidance did the supreme court offer...
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the justices, i guess, on the democratic leaning justices, can't get together. the whole supreme court can't get together. they get together on one case and on the next case, they split. that should worry every democrat, independent or republican, in america, that nine justices cannot agree on the same law or the same thing. that is confusing to me. but the ruling, i agree with the ruling. if the president is in office, he should be able to do whatever. he's out, he is fair game. seems to me that the democrats and other people that don't like president trump, should just worry about the -- the people should rule on this. this shouldn't be justices doing it. this is american people, they should be the ones to pick who is going to run for president. host: robert, it was a 6-3 ruling, the three liberal justices, sticking together in their dissent to that ruling today. it is just a who led the dissent. a couple of sentences from th dissent, she wrote, today's decision to grant the former president's criminal immunity reshapes the institution of the presidency and ma
the justices, i guess, on the democratic leaning justices, can't get together. the whole supreme court can't get together. they get together on one case and on the next case, they split. that should worry every democrat, independent or republican, in america, that nine justices cannot agree on the same law or the same thing. that is confusing to me. but the ruling, i agree with the ruling. if the president is in office, he should be able to do whatever. he's out, he is fair game. seems to me...
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if our mental justice, social justice and civil rights. you will recall me introducing peggy shepard to you as the cochair of the white house environmental justice counsel, and it is not lost on anybody here are watching on c-span that this is a critical election year. i want to get an update on what the white house is doing, hasn't done, and regarding the link i laid out for black people regarding environmental justice and social justice and civil rights. peggy shepard. >> the biden administration in its first week issued an executive order on environmental and climate justice that said that all the federal agencies to develop plans and be part of developing a climate justice screening tool so that we can determine where those communities are around this country so that the money can be targeted to those neighborhoods and communities as well. back in 1994, president clinton issued the first executive order that really developed plans on environmental justice among a number of federal agencies so this is not new, but the biden administrati
if our mental justice, social justice and civil rights. you will recall me introducing peggy shepard to you as the cochair of the white house environmental justice counsel, and it is not lost on anybody here are watching on c-span that this is a critical election year. i want to get an update on what the white house is doing, hasn't done, and regarding the link i laid out for black people regarding environmental justice and social justice and civil rights. peggy shepard. >> the biden...
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when we say justice, justice means justice in the distribution of facilities, justice in the distribution of opportunities. recruitment should be done, we should go to localize people in the same area, their longevity is higher, they can see the conditions of the region, and later they can deal with the problems that the area is facing, it is better to touch and solve the problem there. a native we have considered a point, which means that justice does not mean equality. it means that somewhere we have to give more facilities to areas that are facing historical shortages. i am a more successful manager, i have a higher ability than others. one of the events that happened in this government was of course in the previous governments, we strengthened this. the discussion was about evaluation and development centers for managers. we gave licenses to centers for the development and evaluation of managers. any manager who wants to be assigned should go to this center to be evaluated. create a competitive environment. only our government management training center these days has nearly 5 thousan
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justin -- justice any told him barrett was the other was but it was justice thomas and justice alitooth have hume should have recused. justice thomas' wife was involved. justice alito and his wife made political statements in support of the stop the steal. that is basic black letter law grounds for recusal. they refused to recuse. it must be reined in and when the house takes over the democrats take over the majority we will past the independent counsel bill and make sure that we rein it in. >> gann -- dan goldman, thank you for your time tonight. want to welcome legal correspondent lisa rubin who has joined us here. just because i want to underscore what the congressman was saying. chief justice roberts and talking about evidence and i love to get your thoughts says, the answers immunity is the entitlement to not to have to answer for his conagra presidents cannot be indicted based on conduct for which they are immune from prosecution. putting a whole bunch of evidence outside of the purview , which is over and above the prosecutorial immunity. >> this is not something everyone that
justin -- justice any told him barrett was the other was but it was justice thomas and justice alitooth have hume should have recused. justice thomas' wife was involved. justice alito and his wife made political statements in support of the stop the steal. that is basic black letter law grounds for recusal. they refused to recuse. it must be reined in and when the house takes over the democrats take over the majority we will past the independent counsel bill and make sure that we rein it in....
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so that's justice kagan. i couldn't put it better than that in terms of identifying what's at stake in this seemingly wonky question, how you interpret the statute. wow, that's extraordinary extraordinary. we have some great questions from the audience. and this is a big one, neal. and that is tell us about the role of precedent on the supreme court and what does the top decision say about this court's attitude toward precedent? it says that they can overrule any precedent any time, anywhere. that is, if you can overrule roe, which is what think every justice at their confirmation hearing called a super precedent. and what justice o'connor, kennedy and souter said was a super precedent. and you can overrule anything. and let's just take, for example, the judge's discussion of chevron. i think chevron is the most cited case by the u.s. supreme court ever. and so this is woven very much into the fabric of the law. congress, when it's been passing statutes since 1984, has passed them in the shadow of chevron. so
so that's justice kagan. i couldn't put it better than that in terms of identifying what's at stake in this seemingly wonky question, how you interpret the statute. wow, that's extraordinary extraordinary. we have some great questions from the audience. and this is a big one, neal. and that is tell us about the role of precedent on the supreme court and what does the top decision say about this court's attitude toward precedent? it says that they can overrule any precedent any time, anywhere....
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justice sotomayor's dissent was joined today by justice kagan and justice jackson. the three of them and through justice sotomayor's writing favor of writing what is kind of a speaking dissent, it spells it out in plain english, the star consequences of this ruling today. to his credit president biden did the same tonight at the white house. this is a fundamentally new principal and the power of the office will no longer be constrained by the law even the supreme court of the united states. the only limits will be self- imposed by the president alone. but, there are two practical consequences of this ruling that i feel like i need help in understanding tonight. i am worried about both of them, i have to tell you, but i feel like i need expert advice in terms of understanding what they really mean. i will ask for help on two things in reticular, the first is this, not from the dissent, but from the actual ruling, it's talking about the part of the federal indictment against trump for overthrowing the january 6th stuff, the part of the indictment that relates to him t
justice sotomayor's dissent was joined today by justice kagan and justice jackson. the three of them and through justice sotomayor's writing favor of writing what is kind of a speaking dissent, it spells it out in plain english, the star consequences of this ruling today. to his credit president biden did the same tonight at the white house. this is a fundamentally new principal and the power of the office will no longer be constrained by the law even the supreme court of the united states. the...
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, the justice has said. the "wall street journal." what does this likely mean for the public's view of, trust in, and how history will judge this court? >> well, history is going to judge that 2016 election as the pivotal moment when donald trump beat hillary clinton, he was able to then come in and put those three supreme court justices on, and they were ardent, right wing conservative federal society justices. i don't think anybody should be shocked by what the supreme court said today in the sense that it's 6-3. we're living in a hyperpartisan time and the fact that trump got three justices and if he becomes president again, could get a fourth, tells you we're living in a, you know, we're going backwards in time here. but the supreme court's been in crisis. i mean, fdr, after he won in 1936 election and he tried to pack the supreme court, he tried to add justices to it, but he had his own party reigning them in. the problem today is the republican party is just celebrating. they have no desire to reign tr
, the justice has said. the "wall street journal." what does this likely mean for the public's view of, trust in, and how history will judge this court? >> well, history is going to judge that 2016 election as the pivotal moment when donald trump beat hillary clinton, he was able to then come in and put those three supreme court justices on, and they were ardent, right wing conservative federal society justices. i don't think anybody should be shocked by what the supreme court...
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justice sotomayor's dissent was joined today by justice kagan and justice jackson. is the three of them and three justice sotomayor's writing this dissent, they have at least done us the favor of writing what's kind of a speaking dissent. it spells out not in legalese but in plain english the stark consequences of this ruling today. to his credit, actually, president biden did the same tonight at the white house. he said, quote, today's decision almost certainly means there is no limits to what a president can do. this is a fundamentally new principle, and it's a dangerous precedent. the power of the office will no longer be constrained by the law. even the supreme court of the united states. the only limits will be self-imposed by the president alone. but there are two practical consequences of this ruling. that i feel like i need help in understanding tonight. i am worried about both of them, i have to tell you, but i feel like i need expert advice in terms of understanding what they really mean. so i'm going ask for some help on two things in particular. the firs
justice sotomayor's dissent was joined today by justice kagan and justice jackson. is the three of them and three justice sotomayor's writing this dissent, they have at least done us the favor of writing what's kind of a speaking dissent. it spells out not in legalese but in plain english the stark consequences of this ruling today. to his credit, actually, president biden did the same tonight at the white house. he said, quote, today's decision almost certainly means there is no limits to what...
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the changes include term limits for the justices term limits -- justices and others. the announcement took place at the lbj presidential library in austin, texas. ♪ [applause] pres. biden: thank you. thank you. [cheers and applause] thank you. [cheers and applause] thank you, thank you, thank you, really. thank you. [cheers and applause] thank you, mr. ambassador. thanks for that introduction and above all for your friendship over the years. there is only one word that comes to mind every time i think of andy young, integrity. absolute integrity. thank you to the johnson family for caring for the legacy of a truly great president and first lady. your mom was incredible as well. [applause] the same goes to mark kirk, the president of the lbj foundation. it is great to be back here. look, i was in college at the university of delaware in my early years when i heard the news that president kennedy had been assassinated. i remember exactly, like everybody in my generation remembers where they were sitting, standing, walking. i was on the steps of one of the university hal
the changes include term limits for the justices term limits -- justices and others. the announcement took place at the lbj presidential library in austin, texas. ♪ [applause] pres. biden: thank you. thank you. [cheers and applause] thank you. [cheers and applause] thank you, thank you, thank you, really. thank you. [cheers and applause] thank you, mr. ambassador. thanks for that introduction and above all for your friendship over the years. there is only one word that comes to mind every...
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we've had to put justices under 24/7 police protection., a deranged young man is about to go on trial for trying to kill a justice and his family while they slept in order to change the outcome of a case. in polling last year, the court was the branch of government with the highest level of trust from the public, but that hasn't stopped democrats from devoting the last eight years to an all-out campaign against the court's legitimacy and ultimately against its very existence. radical liberals have called for court-packing. influential members of this body, including the senior senator from rhode island and the chairman of the judiciary committee, have threatened ominously that, quote, perhaps the court can heal itself before the public demands it be restructured. the left wages daily warfare against the justices, illegally picking their neighborhoods with impunity, trying to harm their spouses' careers, and even spying on what kinds of flags they fly in their yards. today, the biden-harris administration, which desperately wants these radi
we've had to put justices under 24/7 police protection., a deranged young man is about to go on trial for trying to kill a justice and his family while they slept in order to change the outcome of a case. in polling last year, the court was the branch of government with the highest level of trust from the public, but that hasn't stopped democrats from devoting the last eight years to an all-out campaign against the court's legitimacy and ultimately against its very existence. radical liberals...
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"you can't make peace without practicing justice first. justice has to come first and then peace will follow, and until justice is done, there will be no peace. and therefore, for me any model of man or woman who is willing to give their lives for justice, willing to speak in front of terrible leaders, when we think of lady zeinab especially, to promote justic, those people for me are important for the whole world. i don't think that the bait should belong. to sha islam alone, i think that the members of the bait are without boundaries and borders, that they are universal figures and that they should be known universally as as models to be imitated in the fight for justice. the truth is that all of us, no matter who we are, we have to make model decisions almost every day about how we're going to speak, how we're going to behave. for many people those decisions are very difficult, they don't want to lose friends, they don't want to be unpopular, they don't want to seem over. or old fashioned, and they're frightened of these decisions, and i think that women like lady zainab and lady f
"you can't make peace without practicing justice first. justice has to come first and then peace will follow, and until justice is done, there will be no peace. and therefore, for me any model of man or woman who is willing to give their lives for justice, willing to speak in front of terrible leaders, when we think of lady zeinab especially, to promote justic, those people for me are important for the whole world. i don't think that the bait should belong. to sha islam alone, i think that...
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justice marshall. i mean, we all know justice. justice marshall was the solicitor general of the united states. justice marshall was a court of appeals judge. justice marshall was one ninth of the living american constitu ation as a justice of the supreme court. he got a lot of heat, got a lot of applause this during his lifetime, as he should have. there are other people however, there are other people who enabled marshall to do. he did. and there were other people enabled the supreme court to strike a blow for decency. and those other people often not get much attention at all. i just want to mention one. i'll mention one. i'm from south carolina. one of the cases of brown versus board education, briggs versus elliott clarendon county, carolina. it was a man named, henry briggs. henry briggs and his wife, elizabeth briggs. henry briggs, very modest man, worked in a filling station. his wife was a maid. they became plaintiffs in. briggs versus elliott briggs as who was actually a pretty decent man, says harris. read in the paper,
justice marshall. i mean, we all know justice. justice marshall was the solicitor general of the united states. justice marshall was a court of appeals judge. justice marshall was one ninth of the living american constitu ation as a justice of the supreme court. he got a lot of heat, got a lot of applause this during his lifetime, as he should have. there are other people however, there are other people who enabled marshall to do. he did. and there were other people enabled the supreme court to...
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equal justice under law. a simple four word phrase that while america has certainly never achieved this goal, charges the courts to strive for it and work for it. on monday, inside of that building, that same one, the courts conservative super majority made a mockery of it. in trump versus the united states, the court essentially ruled that american presidents do not have to obey the law when conducting official presidential acts. it had a huge win to trump giving him immunity to some of his conduct while trump was obviously ecstatic with the ruling, posting, big win for our constitution and democracy, proud to be an american, justice jackson's dissent called the ruling a five alarm fire that threatens to -- some scholars are criticizing the ruling saying that it violates the principle of original is and that the conservative justices all claim to abide by but also contracts with some of these conservative justices have argued in the past, let's look at their confirmation hearings when he was in the hot seat,
equal justice under law. a simple four word phrase that while america has certainly never achieved this goal, charges the courts to strive for it and work for it. on monday, inside of that building, that same one, the courts conservative super majority made a mockery of it. in trump versus the united states, the court essentially ruled that american presidents do not have to obey the law when conducting official presidential acts. it had a huge win to trump giving him immunity to some of his...
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what happens is a justice reads an opinion. as you say, it's the least senior justice that will start the opinion reading. here it was justice barrett reading. that's going on right now. if the decenters, the so-called three liberal justices. if they disagree so strongly, they'll start reading their opinion. that can take you to 10:10, 10:15, maybe even 10:20. that ten-minute increment rule that you referred doesn't exist anymore. that was only during covid when there was no one in the audience. now there is actually an audience in the court as we report to our our viewers. it could take longer. we could get -- the next decision which is presumably the social media cases, should start to come down in the next few minutes. there may be some dissents that are read from the bench, and that would take us to maybe a 10:50 start time on the i'm municipality cases that we're waiting for. >> it is a sense among the very astute legal minds in this room that justice roberts, chief justice roberts would be the one to write this decision.
what happens is a justice reads an opinion. as you say, it's the least senior justice that will start the opinion reading. here it was justice barrett reading. that's going on right now. if the decenters, the so-called three liberal justices. if they disagree so strongly, they'll start reading their opinion. that can take you to 10:10, 10:15, maybe even 10:20. that ten-minute increment rule that you referred doesn't exist anymore. that was only during covid when there was no one in the...
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here's what justice sotomayor, supreme court justice, wrote in her dissent. i quote.the president now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. orders the navy seal team 6 to assassinate a political rival? immune. organizes a military coup to hold on to power? immune. takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? immune. in every use of official power the president is now a king, above the law. that's what justice sotomayor wrote in her dissent. folks, just imagine what a president could do trampling civil rights and liberties given such immunity. the court's being used to weaponize an extreme and unchecked agenda. this decision is a total affront to the basic expectations we have for those who wield the power in this nation, that they are expected to be wholly accountable under the law. the president is no longer constrained by the law and only limits on abuse of power will be self-imposed by the president alone. that's a fundamentally flawed view and a fundamentally flawed principle. a dangerous principle. on top of its extreme decisions, the court is mired in a crisis
here's what justice sotomayor, supreme court justice, wrote in her dissent. i quote.the president now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. orders the navy seal team 6 to assassinate a political rival? immune. organizes a military coup to hold on to power? immune. takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? immune. in every use of official power the president is now a king, above the law. that's what justice sotomayor wrote in her dissent. folks, just imagine what a president could do...