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and uh... on the line was former u_s_ senator arlen specter
for actually search for more than thirty years longer serving senator from say
pennsylvania in that state's history
and uh...
fill with quite a
a fascinating political life senator specter welcome to the program acuity
stuart and wielding katzen while
or two-party apprise you in the end of
governing that as we know it
um... a fascinating book i uh... one of the things i thought was
particularly interested in this in your book senator specter was how uh... how
often and how well you credited your wife with uh...
a role in helping new alike for sample wii rereading it is the resolution of
pull your seniority i'm she saturday here arlen specter ghetto if you don't
get out there and fight i think so many so many successful man uh... actually
aryan parked there because
they have a partner who has been so supportive and yet they were league
knowledge it you've got a brilliant job in this book profitable
no doubt about that john's contribution
they address to the book is owned by effort to try it out
uh... encouraging voters to come out there in two thousand twelve and uh...
uh... in the gridlock in washington by
uh... findings are about the extremists are taking over both parties are strong
senator wiped out
uh... bob bill bennett utah we're providing three percent conservative
rating
cast one vote at least to uh... impure don't where the republican primary on
the other side of the aisle
joey remember looking at uh... when a democratic primary
and uh... that has resulted in mum members being awkward about for party
for fear that there are a primary opposition
their research into the
experience of senator lisa murkowski r ten points to a way that the sender
to come back she was devoured dove accountable zwart tea party
in the alaska primary eventually waged a white and blue which is
extraordinarily difficult virtually unprecedented know how hard it was just
domo hausky yes
well she proved it if you informed electorate
uh... you can bet you will depend upon a supporter
and uh... and uh...
depicted below mitchell it's them n_b_a_ here this is not
sudden saying there are those who suggest that george herbert walker bush
uh... lost to bill clinton in part because the base was not active in that
the base is not active because he had voted to raise taxes and therefore
grover grover norquist in his bunch basically took him down at the pre pre
uh... a tea party folks moral all appear to be so right doesn't get it or earlier
over there at all
yeah and other waiting hours to have their candidates run on a platform of no
compromise so that's just not
uh... realistic uh... politics is the art of a possible what politics is the
auto problem are said
the presidency always gets most of the attention understandably
but uh... no matter who the president is if you don't have a congress of war
uh... the government can't function
them right now it's uh... dysfunctional which has been stymied by the uh...
partisanship of excesses of the people on the extreme sharp spoke right
you were the guy who went out
or uh... justice thomas during now justice thomas then nominee
jerry is uh...
uh... is nomination hearings with regard to anita hill and her one of the most
outspoken people and in their in that context now that
fair amount of information is come out basically vindicating her
and and justice thomas has demonstrated uh...
at at the very least and unwillingness
to abide by the federal code of judicial ethics
every other federal judge in the united states has to abide by it
uh... were he any other federal judge he would have been impeached or or fired
long ago
i'm curious your thoughts on that nomination that process and anna and the
supreme court in general is justice thomas in particular at balmoral
you asked about six questions
ever complicated questions
well first of all are correct that the
supreme court
position that the individual justices can decide for themselves whether
they should take about a precarious is uh... dead wrong
i think uh... that there ought to be a review process within the court that i
wrote an op ed piece for the
washington post all that uh... that appeared there within the past
past couple of weeks when you talk about professor hill being vindicated
uh... i don't know i don't think you're right we have a very narrow question
uh... as to whether or happened between uh...
professor hill and clarence thomas was a disqualifier
uh... and in that nineteen ninety one we took up the issue of what happened
between them ten years earlier
uh... there's nowhere you could reconstruct that he said she said that
would happen better about i stand corrected
but the platform
of that she followed a they work together at the department of education
he went to determine if the uh... c_d_ she took a job with it
but she went out to teach it'll roberts law school oklahoma inviting them to
come speak she drove into the airport she visited him in washington
and my conclusion was or what ever happened
uh... was not uh... was model disqualify her
all but when you awarded or come up the present autoplay care ramps for
impeachment
uh... but i think they're really severe rounds to question
thomas for sharing
of all places like citizens united where rock his wife works for a big uh...
hello lobbying firm that it gets to the benefit from the
uh... horrendous ruling a bit corporations should units could become a
limited does not a much contributions explanation apropos that article threes
unisex into the constitution that creates an authorizes the supreme court
explicitly says that the supreme court shall operate
under regulations established by congress
congress could be easily pass a law saying and in a and and the supreme
court could not knock it down to earth in the constitution saying that day of
the federal code of judicial ethics applies to supreme court justices
well horribly discography give much of anything done that's wat wobbly ta
which brings back to the main promise your book cycle foxtel
all what budgetary federal judges are subject
to it but there are disqualified
if of spouse for example having financial in protest
paulo but dollop
it's not going to start in portion
and in the op ed i wrote for the washington post are suggested that when
there is
a petition for refusal as for the justice to step aside that he has to
write about ten minutes reviewed with the chief justice or
a senior justice with the case involved
that those merrill order they decide to go before court
individual justice ought not uh... decide for himself
bella federal or we just talked about which shows that they were disqualified
if there is a financial interest bar spouse for example
of the chief justice roberts in this year and report one out of his way to
say that's never been tested
balikpapan though
but when you should pardon the pun personal lawyer or that's true
uh... but uh... supreme court has a large forward if they think there are so
violation of separation of powers so they'll strike it down at least at the
last word since eighteen oh three since the marburg you know what
that's right by the energy accident eighteen twenty three-year thirty cirrus
and the exact opposite he said uh... justice marshall's mrs lim foursome
bathtub
jackson doctrine was not prevail but yeah just because we support in court
can have a large toward
i think congress or iraq dot i'll put it to the supreme court uh... well i think
they'd be reluctant to declare
uh... mac which uh... dealt with these issues unconstitutional i've been trying
to get the supreme court all of our stock yeah don't take too much away from
you radio guys
trust fund a very tight for simulcast on television right now in fifty five
million homes or i'll give you our uh...
you you are the struggle casper television you have to wait until we
ended their only one
uh... the supreme court decides be nice about what they ought to be work for
about a cargo shorts dash four there
yeah and they have the authority to among them tomorrow either way i think
the congress goes i think the congress has the authority of the along
disqualification
but uh... i do realize that i wish them being the factions that someone system
was working for the final report shows that
the their research to respect whatever reports those now ever march with the
smart elegantly judicial independence arrivals all to the following the
specifications i don't like goddess life among the cannibals senator arlen
specter