ACB Confirmation Hearing Softballs
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Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
4.4 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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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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