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  • vice president Biden on the issue of abortion in 2012 you said President Obama's to Supreme Court picks of them.

  • There was no litmus test we picked People who had an open mind did not come with an agenda.

  • And you've said before we both believe that we should not apply narrow litmus tests toe appointees to the Supreme Court.

  • Let me just let me just ask.

  • Would you do it differently as president, Mr Vice President, Would there be a litmus test on a force?

  • Say the rest of what I said.

  • I said that we're gonna not appoint anyone who did not have a view that under numerator rights existed in the Constitution.

  • That's not a specific test.

  • It's a generic test and only wait.

  • Only reason women have the right to choose is because it's determined that there's under new berated rights coming from 1/9 Amendment in the Constitution.

  • That's what I said and I was.

  • I was part of the reason why Elena Kagan to work for me.

  • We got in the Supreme Court.

  • I was part of the reason why Ruth Bader Ginsburg is on the court.

  • I was part of the reason why I sort of my airs on the court.

  • She will swarm in.

  • I preside.

  • And I'm the reason why this right wasn't taken away a long time ago because I almost single handedly made sure that Robert Bork did not get on the court because he did not think there should be a new medic rights.

  • You're right.

  • So let me just get that straight.

vice president Biden on the issue of abortion in 2012 you said President Obama's to Supreme Court picks of them.

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