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Boom! Lawyered

Amy Coney Barrett Is Confirmed. Does the Law Even Matter Anymore?

Boom! Lawyered

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4.8616 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

It's official. With the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court today, conservatives now have a 6-3 majority and a death-grip on the institution. What now?

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0:00.0

Hello, fellow law nerds. This is a rightfully embarrassed team legal coming at you with an addendum to the podcast that we just recorded. See, we were going to re-record the podcast, but quite frankly, I didn't want to let go of one of the jokes in this particular bit. So we're just going to record this addendum and say, in fact, this was not quite the historic vote that we thought it was.

0:23.9

Because Susan Collins went and fucked it all up and voted with Democrats.

0:27.9

So we were here to tell you about all this exciting, groundbreaking news because oh my God.

0:32.6

And then now, now she picks the time to be concerned enough to actually vote like a normal person. All I'm going to say is the joke still stands. The joke, the joke is good. You'll laugh at it and then you'll be glad that we recorded this agenda. And then you'll be like, oh, now it makes sense. But you know what? Hey, sometimes we make mistakes too. And when we do, we want to own up to him right away. So this is us saying, ooh, we got that one a little wrong because we were super eager to talk to you about how terrible Amy Coney-Barrant is going to be. So she's going to be just as terrible. Yeah. It's just that now she won't be as historic, which is actually probably better, because let's just relegate her to the trash bin of the

1:11.0

Supreme Court history where she belongs.

1:14.3

Poof.

1:15.5

All right.

1:16.5

Enjoy the show.

1:18.3

Voting to confirm this nominee should make every single senator proud.

1:26.1

Wow. Senator proud.

1:35.4

Hello, fellow law nerds. Welcome to a special reaction episode of Boom Lawyard, a Rewire News Group podcast hosted by

1:41.0

the legal journalism team that is excited that Justice Amy Coney Bear is now a thing

1:47.0

and really hopes that she's going to provide funnel cake in the kingdom of God that she's

1:52.3

trying to create. I'm Imani Gandhi. And I'm Jess Piccolo. I'm not that excited.

2:00.0

Funnel cake. Funnel cake.

2:01.1

Funnel cake.

2:03.1

Oh, simmer down, Amani.

2:05.4

Rewire News Group is dedicated to empowering you to own your relationship to sex, abortion,

2:10.6

parenthood, and power.

2:11.9

And the Team Legal podcast is part of that mission.

2:14.5

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

2:18.5

So, Justice Kingdom of God, we have a new Supreme Court justice. It's the third one that the

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