justice gorsuch: thanks. mr.ccloud: that ishe test courts of appeals are applying justice gorsuch: do you want a negligence test or not? mr. mccloud: i do not want a neigence test. i want to test that says you only look at condu tt is regulated by the fourth amendment. that is searches and seizures. justicgouch: objective inquiry lki at the totality of the circumstances, right? mr. mccloud: an objective inirthat looks at the totality of the circumstances to determine whether the officer generally -- genuinely believed there was a thre. you don't look at the totality to determine if the officer made miake. justice gorsuch: whether there was excessive use of rc is the latter was theion? mr. mccloud: thi court has consistently said when an ofcer confronts a genuine threat it's not excessive to use force and i would be very concerned -- justice gorsuch: that's an objective inquiry. mr. mccloud: it is. justice roberts help -- just her -- justice robhow broad is the totality of circumstaes in your view? this officer go

judge gorsuch is independent. he's fair. we've got one of the most impressive resumes you'll ever see. and he's earned the highest possible rating from the group. the democratic leader call the gold standard for evaluating judicial nominations. no one seriously disputes his sterling credentials to serve on the court. and yet in the judiciary committee, democrats just withheld support from him on the floor. democrats say they launch a partizan filibuster against him. something republicans have never done. no one in the senate republican conference. no one has ever voted to filibuster a supreme court nominee. not one republican has ever done that. the senate did then vote to block the gorsuch nomination. it needed 60 votes to advance. it got 55. and the majority leader returned to the floor to change the rule on supreme court nominees, also known as the nuclear option. our democratic colleagues have done something today that is unprecedented in the history of the senate. unfortunately, it has brought us to this point. we need

his name happens to be gorsuch. he's a member of the supreme court. in extremely good standing. he's highly respected by everybody. i don't know, are you two friends or something? did this just happen to be the justice that -- this happened to be to luck of the draw? what happened? did you reach out? you reached out to a very good man. please if you would. thank you very much. [applause] >> that's a 10. [applause] [applause] >> raise your right hand. i robert f. kennedy jr. >> i robert f. kennedy jr. >> do solemnly swear. >> do solemnly swear. >> that i will support and defend. >> that i will support and defend. >> the constitution of the united states. >> the constitution of the united states. >> against all enemies. >> against all enemies. >> foreign and domestic. >> foreign and domestic. >> that i will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. >> that i will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. >> i take this obligation freely. >> that i take this obligation fly. >> without any mental reservation. >> without any mental reservation. >> or purpose of evasion. >> or pur

justice gorsuch? >> i thought ginsburg was a conviction of an adult who sold to minors it was not that minor asserting any rights. he was charged and convicted of crimes knowingly just selling to minors, right? works forgive me for agree with both you and justice sotomayor progressively one of us can be right. >> here is how i square this. a child by the seller invoking the rights of minors. that's where his focus. his right to sell to minors. he was convicted of a crime knowingly selling to minors. as your honor knows in the context of the over breath the availability of the overbreadth challenge can invoke the rights of others and that's exactly what i understood for justice brennan the challengers there invoking the right. >> okay. okay. do you agree he was challenging criminal conviction knowingly sell question works i'm not going to disagree with the procedures the substance. quit your distinction of ginsburg as they are he did not have to check every id is that your distinction question correct

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to do something concrete so that was the well, the first year back has been considered to be judge gorsuch wrote about it that the most significant sentencing reform piece of legislation of the century, judge frederick bloch with book a second chance tonight at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span q&a, you can listen to q&a and all of our podcasts on our free c-span now app. on monday, a panel of academics and scholars will discuss challenges facing the u.s. and what progress has been made to address them. hosted by the brookings institution, the american enterprise institute, and tulane university. watch live at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span. c-span now a free mobile app or online at c-span dot org. listening to programs on c-span through c-span radio is easy. tell your smart speaker play c-span radio and listen to washington journal daily at 7 a.m. eastern. important public affairs events throughout the day and weekdays catch washington today. listen to c-span any time. just tell your smart speaker play c-span radio. c-span created by cable. democracy. it isn't just an idea. it's a process. a process sh

$600,000 to wuhan through ecohealth, it couldn't have mattered at all multi million dollars enterprise gorsuchf function research, now we learned they knew u.s. aid was putting $40 millioned to the wuhan laboratory in china? and then this came out samantha power came out and said going to be happy we are cutting u.s. aid programs. they are very angry because they are not getting $40 million for their lab and not training 6,000 reporters to be anti-american fashion and we know that they were very happy that we had a gender studies program being funded at the university of kabul. so i think the chinese are going to be really angry because they thought all of the things we were doing were culturally imperialistic and against our own interest. >> laura: we are finding out, victor, that a lot of these grants, in one way or another, were dependent upon the receiving country's agreeing on other cultural issues or maybe climate change or lgbtq. i mean, that was all kind of interwoven into these grants, which i think also is going to shock a lot of people when they find out about it. >> yeah. i think a

joining me now mike davis, former law clerk to justice neil gorsuch and president of the article iiiroject. mike, a lot of people don't realize that these briefings do continue. i'm not sure why they ever continued. i think all of it is stupid. but, in this case, is it justified given what we know about biden's cognitive state, and obviously his own handling of classified information? >> definitely the president of the united states as the commander-in-chief under our constitution and he gets to control who gets classified information and who does not. and so president trump. president trump correctly made a determination that president biden could not be trusted with classified information with his cognitive failure along with his mishandling of classified records: from his time as vice president, moved several times, accessible by his employee who was a chinese agent and maybe used by hunter biden to secure ukraine funding. so i think president trump made the right decision here. >> hear the screams from the left mike about this that it's petty and so forth. petty, i think it sends

the first step act, judge gorsuch wrote about it, is said to be the most significant piece of legislation of the century. i can talk more about it but i will try to be as focused as i can to answer your questions precisely. peter: talking about legislation in general, how much leeway does a judge how when it comes to sentencing? judge block: [laughter] sentencing of course is really the most profound part of a district court judge's responsibility because we have a lot of discretion. there are outside limits to it, yes, but within the parameters of what we can do, we can render a lot of different types of sentences and they vary throughout the country because demographics are different, cultures are different, sentences are different. but the district court judge has this awesome responsibility to decide whether to deprive someone of his or her liberty, and for how long. the appellate courts do not have that responsibility, we have to make the decision. yes, the appellate court can look but they do not have the discretion, they are just going to be concerned about the fact that we did not

after supreme court handed down dobbs we needed to get rid of the supreme court and they screamed at gorsuch and justice kavanaugh. i don't like that stuff. we don't need to undermine the federal judiciary. we need to appeal from the bad decisions. that's what we will do and i think we'll win. >> bill: linda mcmahon is hearing on thursday for her confirmation, the department of education now. i imagine democrats will go on offense in that hearing. we'll see how much is heard there. what's the mood in the hallways up there? what has been happening over the last three weeks among your colleagues? >> cliches are true. drinking from a fire hose. fighting mohammad ali. i'm glad i'm on the side of ali. the punches keep coming from my democratic colleagues. that's good, the only way you'll change this place. i have said before common sense is illegal in washington, d.c. if you depend on washington to develop common sense it will never happen. half -- what i feel -- i look around. some of these people, you know, i've said before, it's like how did they make it through the birth canal? they're not th

supreme court justice neil gorsuch swore in kennedy this afternoon in the oval office. in remarks leading up to the ceremony, trump praised kennedy, saying that he would restore americans trust. democrats are concerned over kennedy's controversial views on vaccines. he was confirmed by the senate in a largely party line vote. former republican senate leader mitch mcconnell, who is a childhood polio survivor, joined democrats in voting against him. >> we need to put america on the path to good health. president trump has selected robert f kennedy jr to do just that, mr. kennedy is has it or has it to our health? he's a rubber stamp for the agenda to raise your health care costs so that they can line the pockets of their wealthy friends. >> the health and human services department, now led by kennedy, has a $1.7 trillion budget. it includes 18 federal agencies overseeing the nation's food and health, including the cdc and fda. coming up next at six, a group of fourth graders in san jose showing compassion to the victims of the l.a. fires. what the students launched and th

supreme court justice neil gorsuch did the honors.he past, but let's look at vaccine maker stocks. pfizer, moderna and novavax all higher. and, of course, part of the ability to get him through this vote was bill cassidy, the louisiana senator, who got assurances from rfk jr. that kennedy would not dismantle the nation's vaccine safety systems or take down government vaccine guy dance. >>> all right. in the wake of yesterday's hotter than expected consumer inflation data, nobody should be surprised that producer prices, manufacturer prices also surprised to the upside in january. now, we know the price consumers pay for, yeah, eggs jumped 15% month over month, but check out the price jump wholesalers are scrambling to deal with. the january ppi report showed egg prices soared44% month over month, and a staggering 186 year-over-year. while some whole searls are feeling the inflation pressure, their earnings show otherwise. this morning food service distributer or u.s. foods reported net sales of $9.5 billion for the fourth quarter. tha

joining me now, mike davis, former law clerk to justice neil gorsuch and president of the article three project. mike, a lot of people don't realize that these briefings do continue. i'm not sure why they ever continued. i the president's agenda again in all 50 states. what do you believe will happen at these hearings? and will president trump ultimately prevail? >> so the american people elected president trump to bring much needed reforms to washington. he campaigned on the fact that he's going to implement doge and get rid of waste, fraud and abuse in the government. and the president has that power under article two of the constitution. he has both the commander in chief power to bring people from overseas back home like he's doing at usaid. he also has power to hire fire, move federal employees. that's part of his constitutional power. as as the chief executive officer. >> but the government just so understand i don't mean to interrupt, but the government employee union that rose up and a trump appointed judge, carl nichols, late today in the d.c. district court, he agreed with som

supreme court justice neil gorsuch swore in kennedy this afternoon there in the oval office.esident trump praised kennedy, saying that he would restore americans trust in health institutions. democrats are concerned over kennedy's controversial views on vaccines. the senate voted to confirm him in a largely party line vote. former republican senate leader mitch mcconnell, who is a childhood polio survivor, joined democrats in voting against him. [applause] >> we need to put america on the path to good health. president trump has selected robert f kennedy jr to do just that. mr. kennedy is hazard a. >> hazard to our health? he's a rubber stamp for the agenda to raise your health care costs so that they can line the pockets of their wealthy friends. >> the health and human services department, now led by kennedy, has a $1.7 trillion budget. it does include 18 federal agencies overseeing the nation's food and health, including the cdc and fda. >> coming up, a musical group from the east bay tapping into their culture to help educate and entertain the difference. they're making o

but what donald trump was able to do with his three appointees, neil gorsuch, brett kavanaugh and amyoney barrett was to sort of embolden clarence thomas's conservatism. so they've kind of formed a great partnership, all moving the court more to the right. dana. >> yeah, i think, um, that point in your story where you're talking about how trump is a bit obsessed with clarence thomas's, thomas's star power amongst the conservatives was interesting. i mean, trump loves people who have star power, loves people who love him. and the clarence thomas's have made clear that even after 2020 and after the election there, that they were willing to essentially reject the legitimate election results. at least clarence thomas's wife. but it's also just striking, because we're talking about a moment where all of these lawsuits are probably headed to the supreme court. birthright citizenship, questions about whether or not the president is violating the power of the purse with congress. you name it, the list goes on and on. lawsuits are barely starting. they're probably headed to the supreme court v

his name happens to be gorsuch. he's a member of the supreme court. in extremely good standing. he's highly respected by everybody. i don't know, are you two friends or something? did this just happen to be the justice that -- this happened to be to luck of the draw? what happened? did you reach out? you reached out to a very good man. please if you would. thank you very much. [applause] >> that's a 10. [applause] [applause] >> raise your right hand. i robert f. kennedy jr. >> i robert f. kennedy jr. >> do solemnly swear. >> do solemnly swear. >> that i will support and defend. >> that i will support and defend. >> the constitution of the united states. >> the constitution of the united states. >> against all enemies. >> against all enemies. >> foreign and domestic. >> foreign and domestic. >> that i will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. >> that i will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. >> i take this obligation freely. >> that i take this obligation fly. >> without any mental reservation. >> without any mental reservation. >> or purpose of evasion. >> or pur

so, that was -- the first step act, gorsuch wrote about it, the most vacant sentencing reform legislation of the century. >> with his book "a second chance," sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on q&a. you can listen to that and all of our podcasts on the free c-span now app. ♪ >> saturdays watch the new 10 week series, first 100 days. we will explore the early months of presidential administrations with historians, authors and the c-span archives. we will look at accomplishments, setbacks, and how events impacted presidential terms and the nation of the present day. today we look at the first 100 days of george washington's presidency where he established a very office, created the first cabinet, helped establish the courts and the first system of tariffs and taxes. watch the new series, first 100 days saturdays at 7:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2. c-span, democracy unfiltered. we are funded

so that -- the first step act has been considered -- judge gorsuch wrote about it the most significantncing reform piece of a century. >> judge frederick bloch with his book "a second chance" tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q1 day. >> washington journal continues. host: again it is open forum. 202-748-8001 for republicans. 202-748-8000 for democrats. independents 202-748-8002. this is from london, kentucky paid charlotte starts us off. caller: i would just like some clarification about executive orders that biden did on student loan forgiveness and to my knowledge the supreme court even said that they could not do that. yet it's been done. so i would like a little clarification what's the difference between him for giving student loans and trump putting on executive orders to stop excessive spending? that's what i would like to know please. >> unfortunately our guest is gone per die am sorry about that. let's hear from david in new york. independent line. caller: i voted for three republicans and i voted for three democrats over the years. i grew up through watergate and what

so that -- the first step act has been considered -- judge gorsuch wrote about it the most significantncing reform piece of a century. >> judge frederick bloch with his book "a second chance" tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q1 day. >> washington journal continues. host: again it is open forum. 202-748-8001 for republicans. 202-748-8000 for democrats. independents 202-748-8002. this is from london, kentucky paid charlotte starts us off. caller: i would just like some clarification about executive orders that biden did on student loan forgiveness and to my knowledge the supreme court even said that they could not do that. yet it's been done. so i would like a little clarification what's the difference between him for giving student loans and trump putting on executive orders to stop excessive spending? that's what i would like to know please. >> unfortunately our guest is gone per die am sorry about that. let's hear from david in new york. independent line. caller: i voted for three republicans and i voted for three democrats over the years. i grew up through watergate and what

it is where debates unfold, decisions are made, and a neil gorsuch charting.democracy in real-time. this is your government at work. this is c-span, giving you your democracy unfiltered. next, a look at nuclear deterrence strategy and partnerships, hosted by the exchange monitor at the 2025 nuclear deterrence summit. speakers also focused on management of nuclear stockpiles, security concerns, and clean energy initiatives.