Carrie Severino
@JCNSeverino • 39,620 subscribers
President of JCN (@judicialnetwork). Co-Author of Justice on Trial. RT ≠ endorsement. I probably should include something witty here.
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WATCH: John Kennedy: “You said, ‘assault weapons may be banned because they’re extraordinarily dangerous and are not appropriate for legitimate self-defense purposes.’ Tell me what you meant by assault weapons?” Biden’s Seventh Circuit judge nominee Nancy Maldonado: “I’m not a gun expert.”
Carrie Severino3,388,248 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
Justice Kagan, who notably wrote the foreword for the Federal Judicial Center’s latest reference manual, details the problems with its biased climate science chapter and why FJC Director Judge Rosenberg ultimately pulled the chapter from the manual: “The entire purpose of this book really is not to take positions on contested and contestable matters; it’s to help judges, assist judges, with respect to scientific issues, but not with any kind of slant either way...I think that Judge Rosenberg’s hope is that things will be learned from this experience, and that the Federal Judicial Center won’t ever find itself in this position again.”
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Must Watch: Justice Clarence Thomas shares with the Hoover Institution how being educated by Catholic nuns in segregated Georgia—and the lessons they instilled in him—shaped his childhood: “On the other hand, you had the nuns that would constantly say that ‘God gave you these talents, and you have these God-given talents, and it’s sinful for you not to use them.’”
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Must Watch: Justice Amy Coney Barrett on the problem with Roe v. Wade’s precedent: “It was a free-floating, free-wheeling decision that read into the Constitution...Roe told Americans what they should agree to, rather than what they have already agreed to in the Constitution.”
Carrie Severino524,575 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten
Must Listen: Justice Alito reveals the obvious irony of citing the Black Codes as justification for Hawaii’s 2023 firearm restriction law. “They wanted to disarm the Black population in order to help the Klan terrorize them...they wanted to put them at the mercy of racist law enforcement officers. So is it not the height of irony to cite a law that was enacted for exactly the purpose of preventing someone from exercising the Second Amendment right, to cite this as an example of what the Second Amendment protects.”
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![Justice Clarence Thomas explains that he respects precedent, especially when it aligns with the law and legal traditions, but he believes precedent must be overruled when it fails to uphold the Constitution. “Let’s just take for example...do you think that Plessy [v. Ferguson] was right? That was a precedent for almost seven decades, do you think you should have just followed it because it was already decided?”](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1973495778313199762/amplify_video_thumb/1973495571974369280/img/zJqKukG0ao-MIOCt.jpg)
Justice Clarence Thomas explains that he respects precedent, especially when it aligns with the law and legal traditions, but he believes precedent must be overruled when it fails to uphold the Constitution. “Let’s just take for example...do you think that Plessy [v. Ferguson] was right? That was a precedent for almost seven decades, do you think you should have just followed it because it was already decided?”
Carrie Severino633,384 Aufrufe • vor 11 Monaten
Senator Josh Hawley: "Do you think it's wrong to discriminate on the basis of religious faith?" Biden’s district judge nominee for D.C Loren AliKhan: "Absolutely." Senator Hawley: "Then why did you argue that religious services and religious people pose a greater risk of infection than people gathered to argue for defunding the police?"
Carrie Severino1,943,145 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren
Must Watch: Justice Amy Coney Barrett reveals how escalating threats against the Supreme Court have affected her family, including a recent swatting incident targeting her home. “Maybe I lack imagination, but I didn’t expect that performing this service was going to put me in the position of explaining to my children what a bulletproof vest was and why I had to wear one.”
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Spot on: Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Bishop Robert Barron discuss Justice Antonin Scalia’s philosophy that “the judge who always likes the results he reaches is a bad judge”: “The Constitution is our highest law. It’s a ratified document. If I read into it what my preferences are, rather than interpreting what it says, I’m not being a judge.”
Carrie Severino425,903 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten
Must Listen: Justice Gorsuch questions the attorney for fired FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter on basic executive functions: Justice Gorsuch: “So even some quintessentially executive functions, in your view, are not vested in the president of the United States?” Amit Agarwal: “They are not constitutionally committed to the person of the president and to his sole and exclusive discretion.”
Carrie Severino406,060 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten
If you think Justice Clarence Thomas would ever bow to the left-wing mob targeting him, go back and watch this legendary clip of his 1991 confirmation hearing: Senator Hatch: “What’s Clarence Thomas going to do?” Justice Thomas: “I’d rather die than withdraw… not for the purpose of serving on the Supreme Court, but for the purpose of not being driven out of this process. I will not be scared. I don’t like bullies. I’ve never run from bullies. I never cry uncle, and I’m not going to cry uncle today whether I want to be on the Supreme Court or not.”
Carrie Severino1,565,422 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren
Must Watch: CBS News’ chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford destroys the overreported “legitimacy crisis” narrative being pushed by the Left to smear the originalist Supreme Court justices: “There is a narrative that the Supreme Court is corrupt. We saw that emerge in the wake of the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade...Not only is that narrative overreported, it is patently false, and it is dangerous for the institution and the public’s faith and confidence in the rule of law...It’s profoundly wrong to say corruption where there, in fact, is none.”
Carrie Severino352,425 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten
Must Watch: Justice Clarence Thomas explains the proper role of a judge and recalls sound advice the late Judge Larry Silberman gave him many years ago: “When I first became a judge, Judge Larry Silberman...said, ‘Ask yourself before each case: What is my role in this case as a judge?’ Notice how that limits you, not as a person, not as a Catholic, not as a policymaker, not as a husband, as a judge.”
Carrie Severino178,047 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten