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The Dershow

ACB Confirmation Hearing Softballs

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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My alternatives to having senators make speeches and ask questions without following up.

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0:00.0

It's day two of the nomination and confirmation hearings of Judge Amy Koney Barrett

0:10.0

and the softfalls are flying no hard questions.

0:15.0

No difficult inquiries.

0:19.0

They're just letting her answer with prepared answers, the losers, the American public.

0:26.1

We're entitled to more from our senators, so stay tuned to the Jersey.

0:31.3

Today the Senate members of the Judiciary Committee are examining Judge Amy

0:37.8

Coney Barrett to determine her qualifications to serve in the United States

0:41.7

Supreme Court.

0:43.0

It's a disaster.

0:45.0

I've watched the first few question periods and boy,

0:51.0

I hope that future lawyers aren't watching and saying is this what the

0:57.6

legal profession is about the worst sort of questions, framed ineptly without real follow-up.

1:08.0

What we saw today and what I suspect we'll see in the days days to come with I'm sure some exceptions because there are some really smart members of the

1:18.3

Judiciary Committee, but

1:20.5

What we saw for the most part are statements written by staff members not by the

1:25.5

senators themselves some of them couldn't even pronounce some of the words we saw

1:30.4

questions written by staff members.

1:34.0

Answers prepared by the Murder Board of Judge Barrett.

1:39.2

She was ready for every single question.

1:41.6

She answered them with a smile. She answered them with confidence and the

1:46.8

senators had even though they knew what her answers were going to be they

1:50.3

had no idea how to ask a follow-up question.

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