Amy Coney Barrett Hearings, Day Two: No Notes

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4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On Tuesday, Amy Coney Barrett refused to answer a lot of questions — but still managed to make some pretty wild statements on health care, the LGBTQ community, and more.

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0:00.0	Judge Barrett, under federal law, is it illegal to intimidate voters at the polls?
0:05.0	Senator Klobuchar, I can't characterize the facts in a hypothetical situation, and I can't apply the law to a hypothetical set of facts.
0:15.0	I can only decide cases as they come to me litigated by parties on a full record after fully engaging precedent,
0:22.6	talking to colleagues, writing an opinion. And so I can't answer questions like that.
0:26.6	Okay, well, I'll make it easier.
0:28.6	18 USC 594 outlaws anyone who intimidates, threatens coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, coerce, any other person for the purpose of interfering with the right of such other person to vote.
0:43.8	This is a law that has been on the books for decades.
0:49.3	Two, three, four.
0:52.3	Hello, fellow law nerds.
0:55.3	Welcome to a special reaction episode of Boom Lawyred,
0:58.6	a rewire news group podcast hosted by the legal journalism team
1:02.8	that is sexually attracted to Sheldon Whitehouse's poster board.
1:07.5	Jess, look, two of my best friends from law school live in Rhode Island.
1:12.0	So, like, we got a place to go.
1:13.7	We can go right now and start stalking Senator White House as soon as Friday.
1:18.6	It's a pandemic, Amani.
1:20.5	Like, I know these are desperate times, but come on.
1:24.0	I'm just saying you're the one who called him rumpled hotness today.
1:28.1	So I'm just trying to gauge how committed you are to the,
1:32.4	we're going to call it the Sheldon White House Project.
1:36.2	I'm Imani Gandhi and I want to know how committed Jess Piclo is to the Sheldon White House project.
1:43.0	This is our dark money group we're launching.
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