While speaking to reporters after signing an executive order, President Donald Trump answered a question about Gov. Gavin Newsom's (D-CA) push to redistrict California in response to Texas redistricting.
00:00Mr. President, Gavin Newsom, you mentioned Gavin Newsom on the comment.
00:03Gavin Newsom, yes.
00:04Is there a federal mechanism you're hoping to use to fight back against his redistricting constitutional amendment, or is that...
00:10Well, I think I'm going to be filing a lawsuit pretty soon, and I think we're going to be very successful in it.
00:18We're going to be filing it through the Department of Justice. That's going to happen.
00:22And we're also going to be filing a lawsuit on blue slipping.
00:25You know, blue slips make it impossible for me, as president, to appoint a judge or a U.S. attorney, because they have a gentleman's agreement.
00:36It's nothing memorialized. It's a gentleman's agreement that's about 100 years old, where if you have a president like a Republican, and if you have a Democrat senator,
00:47that senator can stop you from appointing a judge or a U.S. attorney.
00:52In particular, those two, those are the two, I guess anything, but those are the two that are very important.
00:57So we have numerous states where we have unbelievable people.
01:01Now, Jay Clayton was just approved of the Southern District, but he was so good.
01:05He was a top student, top schools, top everything, went to Sullivan and Cromwell, became the head of Sullivan and Cromwell,
01:12came down here with Securities and Exchange Commission, ran it for four years during my term, like, impeccably.
01:19Beautiful job. He did an incredible job.
01:22And we went to court, and the judges, Democrat judges, voted that he could.
01:29That's the only way you get by it.
01:30But generally speaking, you can't do that because you'll have judges from the other party.
01:36So Jay Clayton just got approved, and he's in, but he didn't get approved by the senators.
01:41He got approved by the court system in New York, which was a great thing.
01:44And he's in a position in New York, because he wasn't.
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