Justice Stephen Breyer on state of the Supreme Court

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 เม.ย. 2024
  • ABC News’ Devin Dwyer spoke with retired Associate Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on the embattled institution at this critical moment during a historic series of major cases this spring.
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ความคิดเห็น • 53

  • @jacoh11
    @jacoh11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Why is this interview so obviously chopped up and edited? Give us the full interview.

    • @SliceIceNDice
      @SliceIceNDice หลายเดือนก่อน

      What do you expect from leftist trash news?

  • @Phoenix-in-flight
    @Phoenix-in-flight หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Impeach the Supreme Court was mentioned twice. Definitely on the table for discussion. 😂 I like this guy. ❤

    • @surfwriter8461
      @surfwriter8461 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's totally unrealistic given the highly polarized congress that will remain so for years. Breyer is living in FantasyLand if he thinks Rs will agree to impeach the corrupt, partisan right-wing justices currently on the court no matter how rogue they get. Why isn't he advocating for term limits, a firm code of ethics, and expanding the court? Those are things we really need.

    • @fartpooboxohyeah8611
      @fartpooboxohyeah8611 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      A great summation of why he should have never been on the court. The job of the SCOTUS is NOT to decide based on what they think might happen, or whether what might happen is good or not. That's the job of the legislature. His job was to decide if it was Constitutional or not. That's it. But he's a "living Constitution" advocate which basically allows the court to rewrite laws and reinterpret the Constitution in whatever fashion they like.

  • @x-men69-96
    @x-men69-96 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    His mind is so brilliant. You can never catch him. He always asks to answer your own questions

  • @joepaolinelli7696
    @joepaolinelli7696 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I move for a vote of no confidence of the Supreme Court's leadership.

    • @NikosZaidGomez
      @NikosZaidGomez หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Stop enforcing their most extreme rulings.
      Trump is immune from prosecution? Okay, cool, go enforce that, Clarence.
      Or expand the court.
      Or limit the scope of their jurisdiction through the legislature.
      Why should this court have jurisdiction over anything related to Trump when they are so clearly in his favor?

  • @fartpooboxohyeah8611
    @fartpooboxohyeah8611 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    He is, literally, making the case for legislating from the bench, and he's wrong. If current society wants a law to do a different thing than the writers of the law intended, then we have these things called "legislators" to make that happen. Re-interpreting a law or trying to apply intent to a law beyond what could have been imagined by the writer is wrong.

  • @wolfster747
    @wolfster747 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They are not textualists. They want to write law.

  • @LiberalLoudMouth
    @LiberalLoudMouth หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Terrible interview and Breyer should stop being coy and playing stupid.

    • @fuzzyspackage
      @fuzzyspackage หลายเดือนก่อน

      💯, and that bookplug.🤣

  • @ccwoodlands1565
    @ccwoodlands1565 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Pick…a…side, judge! So, the country needs to wait 3 to 4 years before the young judges have their act together!? We hire experienced judges and we need to let them fumble around for a few years?! Give me an effing break.

    • @NikosZaidGomez
      @NikosZaidGomez หลายเดือนก่อน

      And that's on a hope that they do!
      I mean, they shot down all of the election challenges in 2020, but now they are considering immunity four years later?
      Sounds like a regression to me!

    • @surfwriter8461
      @surfwriter8461 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I couldn't be more disgusted with Justice Breyer for his laissez faire attitude here and his superficial, out-of-touch comments about the current SC majority. The SC is filled with corrupt, partisan and increasingly rogue justices.

  • @michaelobrien8661
    @michaelobrien8661 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So careful with his words. But, being elusive for elusive's sake gets tiresome.

  • @TheFlyrodder68
    @TheFlyrodder68 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    He is here to sell his book. His opinion doesn't count.

  • @fayekalantzis-oy6dp
    @fayekalantzis-oy6dp หลายเดือนก่อน

    I uave just read an article in financial review
    Judge breyer is mentioned
    Im a texualist
    Ordinary words with plain clear meaning so everyone understands were they stand and I to comply with society standards
    Our constitution needs
    Now that needs to be worked on
    🇦🇺
    Its embarrassing the way we have dealt with the aboriginals

  • @thomaspruchinski385
    @thomaspruchinski385 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Pure wisdom

  • @robtopham6095
    @robtopham6095 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "There is a lot to learn before you become too depressed" Yep that's where the country is. We are in too much hurry to make a decision not thinking about the later ramifications. I'd explain this by using a parenting example. If your young child does something that makes you very angry (pick the issue) if you hit him/her you are almost guaranteed for them to stop their bad behavior initially. This is great for the short term but what effect does that have long term on this child? Hitting someone is ok? Letting anger rule your decisions is not a good thing.

    • @fuzzyspackage
      @fuzzyspackage หลายเดือนก่อน

      Type less, say more.🫡🫶

    • @robtopham6095
      @robtopham6095 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@fuzzyspackage Comment less read and comprehend more. SAEPH

  • @isaacgraham4867
    @isaacgraham4867 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What a bad interview! It just sounded like the interviewer just wanted to talk.

  • @ChristopheSmith
    @ChristopheSmith หลายเดือนก่อน

    DJT talks to us like if we were babies .
    He repeats the same thing to us over & over again like if we don't understand him .
    It is humiliating. 😊

  • @maheshseth751
    @maheshseth751 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Justice Thomas is extreme when from Justice Scalia opinion. What makes him extreme is his jurisprudence doesn’t believe in state decisis at all where as most other justices like to leave bad judgements left alone if people built their life around such decision. One exception Justice Scalia made was roe not because he didn’t think it’s bad judgement but he thought it was unworkable. It called for undue burden and he thought that put him in the straight line as policy maker. .

    • @pete3882
      @pete3882 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Leave roe to the states. If you must have the justices involved then just say as a min it's allowed up to 2 months, now states can exceed that. Only medical reasons should be allowed after 4 mos.

  • @surfwriter8461
    @surfwriter8461 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm deeply disappointed in the kind of blase, superficial responses Breyer gives here. Asked about the mood of the court, he says he had a "pleasant lunch...it's always been pleasant". I know the interview must have been edited somewhat, but his answers come across as unconcerned and incredibly shallow. His advice is to "slow down"??? The SC justices will "find it doesn't work" to use a textualist or literalist approach? Is he that blind to the way the majority on the court has used a newer, more cynical and ahistorical approach to achieve the most dramatic shifts in breaking precedent or setting a course totally against both the Constitution and current public opinion? We have arrogant and corrupt justices like Alito and Thomas who act totally dismissive of criticism and intent upon forcefully legislating rather than applying the Constitution to cases before them, who actively seek to aid trump as a lawless and traitorous figure undermining our democracy. Confronted with serious allegations of misconduct by current justices, Breyer only says there's just one way of punishing them and that's impeachment. He says nothing about the lack of any firm code of ethics applied to these justices, a code the majority has shown they have no interest in having since they want to be free of constraints and not be challenged for corruption.
    This is a shockingly bland set of responses at a time when the SC contains right-wing ideologues gone rogue, trying to legislate from the bench and using the most dishonest, corrupt means to achieve their social agenda. I had respect for Justice Breyer in the past, but this casts him as seriously out of touch or in denial about how serious the problems are with this current SC. He can't think that writing a book is going to have any impact on this court majority or be read by anyone who can affect the court. What a sad figure to have sitting there with this ho-hum attitude at a time of great peril in our country.

  • @toomuchfortwo-ff5qp
    @toomuchfortwo-ff5qp หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fluff.

  • @ph43draaa
    @ph43draaa หลายเดือนก่อน

    Unaccountable and unelected, why should i respect an institution that defended slavery and segregation?

  • @user-zo8ue4me3n
    @user-zo8ue4me3n หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    オッペンハイマーを観てテーマである俺が死ぬな殺すなと言う意味を定義して下さい。そして俺は世界の中心を自分の幸せの為に辞任します。

  • @tachikawa6013
    @tachikawa6013 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Disappointing that Beyer is so politically correct that he won’t speak the truth

  • @edwinmartinez7551
    @edwinmartinez7551 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hes just trying to sell his book lol

  • @desiregems
    @desiregems หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Blah blah blah make a committed statement

  • @sarahkragness7138
    @sarahkragness7138 หลายเดือนก่อน

    HEADLINE: Constitutional law scholar lays out the Supreme Court’s rule of lawlessness (OPINION)
    QUOTE: Listening to the oral argument in the Trump immunity case last week, I could not help but think how surreal the conservative justices were acting. It felt like they were going out of their way to ignore our immediate and pressing crisis involving an ex-president who tried to resist the peaceful transfer of power with violence and lies.
    The male conservatives also pretended that *every potential future issue involving presidential immunity* had to be worked out in this case, which is exactly the opposite position of the “good for one day” language and theme of Bush v. Gore. The only similarities between the two cases are Republicans looking out for Republicans, which is exactly what one would expect from a highly partisan *ultimate veto council* staffed with a majority of Republicans.
    The disaster that was the Trump v. United States oral argument reminded me of how little the Roberts court has actually cared about rule of law values and legal transparency during its 18-year run. Leaving aside the overturning or narrowing of numerous landmark cases, from abortion to affirmative action to the free exercise of religion, the Roberts court has consistently, in the court's most important and publicized opinions, engaged in subterfuge, sleight of hand and even outright lying.
    In this post, I discuss landmark cases involving affirmative action, health care, voting rights, separation of church and state and the Second Amendment to show, not that I disagree with the results (I do), but instead to demonstrate that no matter what side of the issues you may favor in these country-defining cases, the Roberts court has resolved these questions in a lawless manner because of reliance on demonstrably false facts and obviously misleading descriptions of prior rulings and other legal materials.
    In short, the Roberts court has acted lawlessly from the beginning. (... article continues...)
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    The corrupt current court should be impeached and all Trump-appointed justices should be removed.