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Speaker 1: Today is day two of the confirmation hearings of Neil

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Speaker 1: gorse Is to the United States Supreme Court. Yesterday, the

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Speaker 1: opening statements of the senator showed the partisan divide. Republicans

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Speaker 1: said gorst was a careful arbiter of the law, while

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Speaker 1: the Democrats said he goes out of his way to

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Speaker 1: issue rulings in favor of powerful institutions. Today, the Senators

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Speaker 1: began their questioning of gorsts illuming question was whether gorstch

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Speaker 1: would be independent, which he said time and time again

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Speaker 1: he would, even if it meant opposing President Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: I will apply the law faithfully and fearlessly and without

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Speaker 1: regard to persons. Time and again. Gorsich also refused to

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Speaker 1: comment on pending cases like Trump's Muslim ban, or even

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Speaker 1: on well established Supreme Court precedent. I'm not gonna say

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Speaker 1: anything here that would give anybody any idea hid rule

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Speaker 1: in any case like that that could come before the

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court or my court of the Tenth Circuit. Our

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Speaker 1: guests are Elizabeth Wider, President of the Constitution Accountability Center,

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Speaker 1: and Carry Severno, Chief council at the Judicial Crisis Network. Elizabeth,

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Speaker 1: what stood out to you during this morning's hearings. Well,

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Speaker 1: I thought one thing that was really interesting happened just

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Speaker 1: before the break. There was a question to Judge Gorseuch

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Speaker 1: about um these repeated comments made by Donald Trump on

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Speaker 1: that he would have as explicit litmus test the willingness

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Speaker 1: for his nominee to automatically overrule ro versus Wade. And

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Speaker 1: the question was put to Judge Gorsch and he said

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Speaker 1: question had been asked of him. The question was not

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Speaker 1: asked of him. Now that's really interesting because the question

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Speaker 1: then is, well, Donald Trump said over and over that

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Speaker 1: he was going to use this litmus test being willing

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Speaker 1: to overturn Roe versus Wade. Does that mean he um,

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Speaker 1: you know, decided it wasn't going to be his litmus

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Speaker 1: test and private, even though a lot of people voted

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Speaker 1: for Trump because of this, or did he pick me

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Speaker 1: Gorstch knowing that without asking him the question, his record

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Speaker 1: showed that he would be someone who would overturn Roe

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Speaker 1: versus Wade. So I think a lot of the people

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Speaker 1: who are watching, frankly on either side either because they

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Speaker 1: want row overturned, or because they desperately want to keep

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Speaker 1: the constitutional right to abortion that women have enjoyed and

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Speaker 1: which enables them to be full economic participants and full

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Speaker 1: equal citizens in this country. A lot of people, I

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Speaker 1: think are looking very closely at that question to just

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Speaker 1: see how do we square these two statements. Carrie. We

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Speaker 1: know that Judge gorse which was chosen from a list

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Speaker 1: given by a federal the Federalist Society, would anyone on

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Speaker 1: that list be on that list if they weren't conservative

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Speaker 1: and against Roe v. Wade? Well, the list was chosen

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Speaker 1: with an eye to finding judges who have a judicial

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Speaker 1: philosophy in the line of justice s glean in his

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Speaker 1: mold to someone who's going to have an originalist approach

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Speaker 1: to the Constitution, looking at the text, looking at the

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Speaker 1: original understanding of that text, way that the Constitution or

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Speaker 1: all of its amendments the time of their passage, Um

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Speaker 1: debt someone who is going to be a textualist when

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Speaker 1: it comes to statutory interpretation. So um, I think all

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Speaker 1: of the list that bards thus far, and so that's

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Speaker 1: what Judge Gorsech stands for as well. And I think

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Speaker 1: another thing that that has been repeatedly mentioned as someone

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Speaker 1: who who has the courage of their convictions. That means

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Speaker 1: even when they think it will be popular use Um.

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Speaker 1: And we've seen many of those cases that Gorsuch has

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Speaker 1: be sympathetic litigants on the side that you don't think

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Speaker 1: with the correct legal result even if they're whether there's

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Speaker 1: law is a bad law. But as Gorsuch has said,

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Speaker 1: you know, you're not always gonna like the laws as

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Speaker 1: they stand. Your job as a judge is to apply

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Speaker 1: the law. Elizabeth Um. It's been said that unlike Justice

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Speaker 1: much compare to Justice Scalia when he was first introduced,

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Speaker 1: especially by President Trump, but that he varies from originalism

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Speaker 1: in his writings. Well, he certainly claims to be Um,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people find that concerning because they look

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Speaker 1: and finding against protections for women, people of color, LGBTQ

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Speaker 1: my organization, Constitutional Accountability Center UM, we consider ourselves to

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Speaker 1: this morning about the Fourth Amendment protection against search and seizure,

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Speaker 1: from the Supreme Court Jones versus United States. But then

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Speaker 1: Fourteenth Amendment, which was passed after the Civil War and

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Speaker 1: wrote into the Constitution crucial protections for equal equality under

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Speaker 1: all persons, both citizen and non citizen. And we don't

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Speaker 1: see that same um evoking of the drafters of the

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Speaker 1: fourteenth Amendment as we see when he books to the

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Speaker 1: of it in uh was applied to modern day circumstances

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Speaker 1: were dream at the Neil Gorcich nomination hearings. He's nominated

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Speaker 1: to fill the seat at the Late Justice and in scale,

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Speaker 1: and he's been compared to Scalle at time and again

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Speaker 1: during the hearings. Gorsich has steadfastly refused to express his

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Speaker 1: opinions about any case decided by the Supreme Court or upcoming.

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Speaker 1: He might have been surprised to hear an interview for

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Speaker 1: the show Uncommon Knowledge in Justice. Scali has said then

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Speaker 1: that since the Supreme Court is essentially rewriting the constitution

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Speaker 1: term by term. The old criteria for appointing justices no

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Speaker 1: longer applies, and senators should be allowed to find out

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Speaker 1: what kind of a new constitution will this nominee right?

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Speaker 1: You know, Judge so and so, do you think there's

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Speaker 1: or love, you don't. Well, I think it's there, and

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Speaker 1: that process, I prefer to the alternative, which is just

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Speaker 1: letting the Supreme Court, without any political control, we write

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Speaker 1: the constitution term by term. We've been talking to Elizabeth Wider,

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Speaker 1: president of the Constitutional Accountability Center, and Carry Severino, chief

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Speaker 1: council at the Judicial Crisis Network. Carry. None of the

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Speaker 1: And Judge Gorcis followed that today, were you surprised to

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Speaker 1: I've I've I've heard that said before, and I think

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Speaker 1: where you really do take the law and the Constitution seriously.

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Speaker 1: If you are simply frankly, as the Constitution Accountability Center

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Speaker 1: some of these um briefs. But you know, if you

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Speaker 1: that's what originalism is, and I think that's the kind

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Speaker 1: of thing that insulates judges from the political um back

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Speaker 1: do we really learn anything at these hearings anymore? Because

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Speaker 1: I'd also like to see that with respect to his

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Speaker 1: And that's really all we're trying to do is really

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Speaker 1: lot of questioning this morning about his independency. Certainly has

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Speaker 1: to that. Carrie. Sure, I think he is following the

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Speaker 1: these cases would be filing accusal briefs, and rightly so.

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Speaker 1: He's been very clear no one is above the law,

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Speaker 1: about the curbing the president's power to appoint someone to

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Speaker 1: fill a top government post.