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🗓️ 10 July 2018
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0:00.0 | From the New York Times on Michael Barbarale, this is the Daily. |
0:04.0 | Today, President Trump has picked Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court. |
0:15.0 | What happens now, given his record and the math in the Senate? |
0:21.0 | It's Tuesday, July 10th. |
0:35.0 | My fellow Americans, tonight I speak to you from the East Room of the White House, |
0:42.0 | regarding one of the most profound responsibilities of the President of the United States. |
0:50.0 | And that is the selection of a Supreme Court Justice. |
0:55.0 | Adam Lovato, what happens at 9pm? |
0:58.0 | So Donald Trump strides out by himself to keep the suspense up. |
1:03.0 | I've often heard that other than matters of war and peace, this is the most important decision a President will make. |
1:12.0 | It makes him introduce your remarks about his first nominee, Justice Neil Gorsuch, about Anthony and Scalia, who's widow was there, about Ronald Reagan. |
1:23.0 | Both Justice Kennedy and Justice Scalia were appointed by a President to understood that the best defense of our liberty and a judicial branch, |
1:33.0 | immune from political prejudice, were judges that apply the Constitution as written. |
1:43.0 | That President happened to be Ronald Reagan. |
1:47.0 | For this evening's announcement, we are joined by Ronald Reagan's Attorney General, Edwin Mies. |
1:53.0 | Ed Mies is there, and that's significant because Ed Mies represents the beginning of a 30-year long project for the conservative legal movement, |
2:05.0 | which has really devoted a lot of attention to creating and grooming candidates for the bench, |
2:12.0 | and much more so than Democrats, Republicans have really been focused on the courts, on the Supreme Court in particular, |
2:19.0 | and this fifth hardcore conservative seat, which Judge Kavanaugh will take, if he's confirmed, will represent the culmination of that 30-year project of putting on the courts reliable conservatives who will interpret the Constitution as it was originally understood, |
2:37.0 | who will read statutes narrowly, and as a consequence, in most cases, will move the court to the right. |
2:44.0 | And Ed, I speak for everyone. Thank you for everything you've done to protect our nation's great legal heritage. |
2:53.0 | And then, you know, Budicante style, he brings out the winner. |
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