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🗓️ 18 October 2020
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Fallon & Al weren’t happy with any part of the damn thing.
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. We've got a great one today, and it's about friggin' time. Man, we've had a bad streak. |
0:13.4 | But this one is great because it's about the Coney-Barrid hearings, and I got a lot to say about this. |
0:21.8 | And our guest is Brian Fallon, who is the executive director of demand justice. |
0:28.0 | And when they say demand justice, they are demanding justice, you see. |
0:32.1 | They've been pushing the Democratic senators, particularly to be stronger on this stuff. And I have two. And this is a great one. |
0:42.4 | Now, I know that the Coney-Barrant hearings are beginning to fade in people's members. They shouldn't. |
0:48.5 | You know, I was there in 2016 when my Republican colleagues on the Judiciary Committee would not even meet, would not even meet with President Obama's nominee, Merrick Garland. |
1:02.0 | And this was all based on this principle, this principle that you couldn't take up a Supreme Court nominee in an election year. |
1:13.6 | That was it. That was the principle and it was such a strong principle that they pledged |
1:19.3 | not to take up a Supreme Court nominee in 2020 if there was a Republican president elected in 2016. Use it against me. Let's play that. Let's play |
1:34.8 | Lindsey Graham saying that right across me in the committee. If there's a Republican president |
1:41.3 | in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, |
1:45.9 | you can say, Lindsey Graham said, let's let the next president, whoever it might be, make that |
1:52.0 | nomination. And you could use my words against me and you'd be absolutely right. |
1:56.2 | And it wasn't just him. No, no, it was Grassley and Corny and Tullin and Tillis and all of them, |
2:06.7 | Cruz. Every one of them made the same pledge. Now, Graham would have said, okay, but Kavanaugh, it was, you know, Kavanaugh, right? |
2:21.6 | So let's play that. |
2:22.6 | Let's play that. |
2:23.3 | This is at the Atlantic Festival. |
2:25.9 | This is Graham. |
2:26.8 | If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump's term, and the primary process has started, |
2:37.6 | we'll wait to the next election. |
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