Sahil Kapur

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.@JohnCornyn: "Thank goodness the Supreme Court is willing to revisit its precedent or we'd still be living with Plessy v. Ferguson or Dred Scott." — PolitiTweet.org

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JACKSON: "Although the Supreme Court is not bound in the sense of having to apply prior precedent, there is stare decisis in our system. There are now standards in the stare decisis world that the Supreme Court applies." — PolitiTweet.org

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Cornyn asks Jackson if she celebrated the confirmation of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. — PolitiTweet.org

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New —> Ketanji Brown Jackson: Highlights from Day 2 of a tense Supreme Court hearing (Will be updated through the day) https://t.co/MMwWFh8OGO — PolitiTweet.org

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Worth remembering: Supreme Court nominees saying something is "settled law" doesn't mean much. Justices have the power to overturn or revise precedents and have done so many, many times in U.S. history. — PolitiTweet.org

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JACKSON: "Roe and Casey are the settled law of the Supreme Court concerning the right to terminate a woman's pregnancy." "In order to revisit ... the Supreme Court looks at various factors because stare decisis is a very important principle." — PolitiTweet.org

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Dianne Feinstein is up. She begins with abortion and Roe v. Wade. — PolitiTweet.org

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Lindsey Graham is now grilling Jackson on the filibuster of Janice Rogers Brown in the Bush era. He’s now quizzing Jackson on specific remarks Democrats, including Joe Biden, made when blocking her. (Brown was ultimately confirmed to the DC Circuit in 2005.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Graham: Scale of 1 to 10, how faithful wld you say you are?.. Do you attend church regularly? Jackson: "I am reluctant to talk about my faith in this way just b/c I want to be mindful of the need for the public to have confidence in my ability to separate out my personal views." — PolitiTweet.org

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Graham asks Jackson what her faith is. "I'm Protestant. Non-denominational." How important, he asks. “My faith is very important but as you know, there’s no religious test in the Constitution... It's very important to set aside one's personal views ... in the role of a judge." — PolitiTweet.org

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@MahoutMike @MSNBC thank you! — PolitiTweet.org

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Sen. Patrick Leahy casually notes he has voted on 20 (!) Supreme Court nominees over his time in the Senate. His first one was for John Paul Stevens, a Gerald Ford nominee, in 1975. — PolitiTweet.org

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Jackson on crime: "As a lawyer and as a citizen, I care deeply about our Constitution and about the rights that make us free... We ensure that people who are accused of crimes are treated fairly... I care deeply about the rule of law." — PolitiTweet.org

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KBJ: "Crime and the effects on the community and the need for law enforcement — those are not abstract concepts or political slogans to me." — PolitiTweet.org

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Ketanji Brown Jackson: "I care deeply about public safety. I know what it's like to have loved ones who go off to protect and to serve, and the fear of not knowing whether they're going to come home again because of crime in the community." — PolitiTweet.org

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Sen. Patrick Leahy jabs Republicans for blocking a vote on Merrick Garland for 10 months "because of a politically-driven agenda," saying it's not comparable to Democrats voting no on conservative judges and explaining why. "Let's make history this week but let's not rewrite it." — PolitiTweet.org

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On the 115 justices confirmed and whose judicial philosophy resembles hers, Jackson replies: "I haven't studied the judicial philosophies of all of the prior justices." She says she comes at this from practice as a trial judge and "my methodology has developed in that context." — PolitiTweet.org

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Jackson adds that speaking generally and there may be circumstances she isn't thinking of, but: "The charge of the judge is to impose the law as written." — PolitiTweet.org

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Ketanji Brown Jackson: "Our obligation as judges is not to create policy. And if Congress has enacted a statute that establishes a cause of action or restricts causes of action, then as a general matter I don't think that courts can oppose one." — PolitiTweet.org

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Jackson tells Grassley she's "not aware of any" constitutional clauses or rights "that are properly illuminated by reference to international law." — PolitiTweet.org

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GRASSLEY: Do you think it's appropriate to look to international law when interpreting enumerated and un-enumerated constitutional rights? JACKSON: No, senator. — PolitiTweet.org

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JACKSON: "I do think the use of international law is very limited in our scheme and in our judging. There are certain cases in which it is relied upon," she says, referring to treaties as an example. "There are very, very few cases in which international law plays any role." — PolitiTweet.org

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Ketanji Brown Jackson on Supreme Court expansion: "I am particularly mindful of not speaking to policy issues because I am so committed to staying in my lane for the system. And I'm just not willing to speak to issues that are properly in the province of this body." — PolitiTweet.org

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Grassley asks Jackson if she agrees with Ginsburg & Breyer on court-packing, saying other justices have weighed in and she should feel free. "Respectfully, senator, other nominees to the Supreme Court have responded as I will, which is that it is a policy question for Congress." — PolitiTweet.org

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Judge Jackson: "There is not a label that fits what it is that I do and how I’ve approached my role... I do not believe that there is a living Constitution in the sense that it’s changing and it’s infused with my own policy perspective or the policy perspective of the day." — PolitiTweet.org

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Grassley, a proponent of putting cameras in SCOTUS, asks Jackson for her view on it. "I would want to discuss with the other justices their views and understand all of the various potential issues related to cameras in the courtroom before I took a position on it," she says. — PolitiTweet.org

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Chuck Grassley asks Jackson if the right to a gun under the 2nd Amendment is a fundamental right. Jackson: "Senator, the Supreme Court has established that the individual right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental right." — PolitiTweet.org

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And now @ChuckGrassley is up. First GOP senator. "I got home last night about 8 o'clock. The first thing I heard was my wife's opinion that you did very good in your opening statement," he says. Audience laughs. "She didn't have anything to say about my statement." https://t.co/bU3xdJrKo7 — PolitiTweet.org

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Durbin asks Jackson one question about judicial method and is using the rest of his time to get her early response to GOP criticisms involving child pornography penalties, Supreme Court expansion, Guantanamo clients, Sentencing Commission guidelines on drugs. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jadler1969: Even folks who oppose confirming KBJ aren't willing to embrace Hawley's arguments — PolitiTweet.org