I'm honored and humbled to appear before you today as a nominee for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

I thank the President for entrusting me with this profound responsibility,

as well as for the graciousness that he and the First Lady have shown my family throughout this process.

Two, three, four. shown my family throughout this process. Hello, fellow law nerds.

Welcome to a special reaction episode of Boom Lawyer, a rewired news group podcast hosted

by the legal journalism team that doesn't have creepy white men making weird comments about their fertility in a Senate confirmation hearing.

Jess, just how fertile do you think Amy Coney Barrett is?

And why does it matter so much to these weirdos?

Oh, they care so much about her fertility.

It's... I mean, I just feel like if you're trying to get her nominated to the bench based on how brilliant and smart and beloved by the faculty

at Notre Dame and the students of Notre Dame, maybe stop commenting on her crotch fruit.

I'm just saying, I'm I'm Imani Gandhi. crotch fruit. Not! I'm just saying.

I'm Imani Gandhi.

Crosh fruit.

And I'm Jess Piclo.

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And the Team Legal Podcast is part of that mission.

So a big thanks to our subscribers and a welcome to our new listeners.

Excuse me while I pull it together from Crotch Fruit.

So today marks the first day of the confirmation hearings of one Amy Coney Barrett, or as I like to call her, Justice Kingdom of God.

And it's almost two years to the day that we were covering Brad McBear's histrionic hearing performance.

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