about 10-11 minutes but man alive do i love what he is saying.
Can’t say I agree with all of that but I do agree with enough. Sasse 2020.
That really is civics 101. How you cannot agree is strange to Me.
If the hearings are to determine only if he has the “temperament and character” to put his personal views into a box marked “irrelevant”, the bar for who is qualified to sit on the Supreme Court includes the municipal court judge in most small towns. I happen to think it’s much more important than that.
I think what he—the nominee— thought and wrote 11 years ago is fair game. It reveals how he—the nominee— feels about certain topics, what precedent he is going to cite when deciding a case, etc… That Cavanaugh (sp?) history is being embargoed is troublesome. Shouldn’t all of the record be examined? If you were interviewing someone for a job and they refused to tell you what they did for a large number of their adult years; would you say, “Oh well, you have the temperament and character to be my child’s nanny?” Really?
As for the Schoolhouse Rock, that’s fine and dandy. Good stuff there. I would love to see a return to that where party patronage didn’t rule the day. Sasse was right about the theatrics.
I disagree also that the only law worth considering is written law. There is natural laws. There is or at least should be a right to privacy. The danger when trying to run your 2018 nation on a 1789 business model is that there is no way that the authors of the model could have predicted the future well enough to have a document that addresses all of the needs of a population that has grown both in numbers and complexity as well.
