Amy Coney Barrett Hearings, Day Three: Make Birth Control Illegal Again
Boom! Lawyered
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🗓️ 14 October 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're not aware of any effort to go back to the good old days of segregation by a legislative body. Is that correct? That is correct. The good old days of segregation. Good old days of segregation. Good old days. Good old days. Good old days. Good old days. Good old days of segregation. Two, three, four. Two, three, four. Hello, fellow law nerds. |
| 0:21.5 | Welcome to a special reaction episode of Boom Lawyer, a Rewire News Group podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that can't apply the law to a set of hypothetical facts. |
| 0:32.4 | Jess, what did you think of today's hearing? |
| 0:34.6 | I'm sorry, Amani, I can't answer that question. |
| 0:36.9 | Why not? I can't apply the law |
| 0:40.0 | to a set of hypothetical facts. But I'm just asking you about your feelings, about your opinion on |
| 0:45.4 | today's hearings. I'm not prepared to answer that question. Interesting. Stonewalling and |
| 0:52.3 | interesting tactic. I'm I'm Imani Gandhi. |
| 0:55.1 | And I'm Jess Piclo. |
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| 1:10.0 | So today is day three of what I like to call |
| 1:14.1 | the kingdom of God shit show. Mother Justice is coming for us all. And I just, you know, |
| 1:22.3 | I have to say, what is the point of doing a second round of questions today right after the ones yesterday when just like yesterday she's basically refusing to answer any questions right yeah she just kept saying over and over that you can't apply the law to a set of hypothetical facts and i'm thinking what are you talking about that's's literally what lawyers do. That's their job, |
| 1:44.3 | is applying law to a set of facts. And I mean, why? Why must we continue with this farce? |
| 1:52.4 | Yeah, I mean, why is the Senate even? Honestly. I mean, so, like, there's a practical answer, |
| 2:00.6 | which is, well, they started and so we just |
| 2:02.8 | kind of have to finish, right? Like, here we are. We go through the process. But the, you know, |
| 2:07.1 | the one constitutional duty that the Senate has in all of this is advice and consent and engaging |
| 2:12.8 | in this hearing process is, in theory, supposed to be the Senate engaging in its advice and consent |
| 2:18.6 | constitutional duties. Does any of that mean anything when we have it basically as theater |
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