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your judicial philosophy.

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How would you describe it

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and how does it guide

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you from the bench?

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I describe my philosophy

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as originalism

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with a slice of textualism

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which means for those

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who are not law nerds like me

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which means that I look

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at the documents

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and the laws

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as they're written

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and I interpret them

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from that point of view.

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And if you have to go

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a little bit outside, I do

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but I don't go

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all the way outside to

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intent of legislators

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and things like that.

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When it comes to precedent

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you've mentioned a couple times

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that if you win

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you would be in the minority.

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But that's not a forever thing.

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As we've seen

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the court can change.

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What is the standard

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when it comes

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to overruling precedent?

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Precedent means

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that you don't

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just because the court

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changes composition

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you don't necessarily go back

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and then revisit things

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you've just done.

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Precedent is that you respect

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you give stare decisis.

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It's a credit

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and it's a benefit to cases

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that have been done

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and you give them time to

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maybe air

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to be looked at

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when courts have

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overturned precedent.

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The U.S. Supreme Court

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in general

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it's something that's maybe

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20 or 30 years down the road.

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It's not something

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that they just do willy nilly

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as Scalia would say.

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It's something

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that you have to have seen

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that it doesn't work.

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You can't just say

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'I'm now

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the member of the majority

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so everything that was done

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I get to undo.'

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That's not how courts work.

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We need to restore

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the respect

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and integrity in those courts

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and have them move forward

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and not always

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be looking back to things

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that they want to change.