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🗓️ 20 February 2025
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0:00.0 | Now it's time for the last word with the great Lawrence. Oh, Donald. Good evening, Lawrence. |
0:05.8 | Rachel, it's not just what you think. It's what I think, too, above blue sky, which is why I followed you to blue sky. |
0:13.7 | Rachel, so this was one of those nights when I'm walking through the hallways to get here. |
0:19.2 | And the silent TV monitors that I'm walking by |
0:22.3 | show you with some pretty important breaking news about birthright citizenship. And I can't hear a |
0:29.4 | word of it. All I know is there's this thing at the bottom of the screen that says, you know, |
0:34.5 | this really important thing has happened. But I've taken a quick look at the breaking news report on it, and it's a Trump-appointed judge |
0:41.6 | is saying, no, you know, this case can be handled for the standard procedures of the, |
0:50.1 | and it's not an emergency. |
0:52.3 | We don't have to go into an emergency mode to deal with your attempt to like hand rewrite the Constitution. |
1:01.0 | Yeah. And it's actually, it's very well written. It's written like in non-legalese. |
1:07.0 | Judges are charged to reach their decisions apart from ideology or political preference. |
1:11.6 | When we decide issues of significant public importance and political controversy, |
1:15.6 | hours after we finish reading the final brief, |
1:18.6 | we should not be surprised if the public questions whether we are politicians in disguise. |
1:22.6 | In recent times, nearly all judges and lawyers have attended seminar after seminar, |
1:26.6 | discussing ways to increase public trust in the legal system. |
1:30.3 | Moving beyond wringing our hands and wishing things were different, |
1:33.8 | one concrete thing we can do is to decline to decide or pre-decide cases on an emergency basis |
1:39.5 | when there is no emergency, warranting a deviation from our normal, deliberate practice. |
1:46.4 | Because they are going to appeal this on an emergency basis to the Supreme Court. |
1:50.2 | And here's this appeals court judge in the Ninth Circuit being like, this is a lot of things. |
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