fair hearing that is the worst expression i have never heard that oklahoma city was cross every t and got every i as a prosecutor should. it will be spoken of the former secretary always speaking on behalf of others for what we should do

talking about people of both parties should be considered and professor driver i was fascinated by how you talk with the way judge garland would handle cases that is a pretty exciting time so they q very much. [inaudible conversations]

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] and [inaudible conversations] and [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

[inaudible conversations]

>> last week the top democrat said some would like to do a pretend hearing of the present supreme court nomination. hav but the senate is not a pre-ted office. but later today democrats will have a free ted hearing to invite the witness at the beginning of the bush administration is shed back kennedy's supreme court vacancies until after the next presidential election.

he also said the of that constitutional power. of but gave democratic congress period and white house counsel laroche these words ted with the second to year the end of the first term, and to have a complicated history in the supreme court.ven it was the beginning of the end.

so consider eight presidentsparn nominee bill we hear is about the supreme court and then the more we are reminded about common sense of the republican position and what it is today. >> again complaints about the fact it to have a meeting today to buy all the judiciary committee members to come. because he will have witnesses testified the

public will not come to the meeting there would not be there.committe there will strike that like everything. the bear case judiciary is in trouble that is why the ranking member is having this meeting today in a the state supreme court needs nine justices. not eight or seven because of their refusal of the d.c. circuit, of the court is in talg trouble. contr it doesn't have enough people to do the work. they have so much control q

and then to be deadlocked.to the >> and those that are on the court had decided it will be better to send it back to the lower courts if they can help work out the problems. . .

president -- that's clinton. we have been through quite a bit since then. but he has nothing else to refer to so he talks about abner mikva who was going to come, who is not going to come. do you think part of it can be that he is more than 90 years old? republicans should attend today's hearing. now the judiciary chair, senator grassley, should proceed with committee hearings. the american people deserve a full and transparent accounting of merrick garland's record and qualifications. after a hearing, of course we should move his nomination for a vote here on the senate floor. every day that passes without confirmation a of a ninth justice to the supreme court is another lost day for the federal

judiciary and american justice. republicans claim their obstruction of president obama's supreme court nominee is to give the people a voice. but their actions are doing just the opposite. republicans are denying the american people the justice they deserve. take, for example, the cases they referred back to lower courts. they have already done it. and the litigants have waited years to get before the supreme court. now in effect they have to start over. republicans are denying the american people the justice they deserve, the justice that we thought was guaranteed by the constitution. so instead of silencing the supreme court and gridlocking our entire judicial system, republicans should give the court the ninth justice it desperately needs. now, focus has been on the supreme court, and it should be, but the republicans are doing the same thing with trial court judges. the federal judiciary has many, many