Amy Coney Barrett & the Worst-Case Scenario for 2020 Election | Alan Dershowitz Interview

The Rubin Report

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News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Alan Dershowitz, author and legal scholar, about the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett as the next justice on the Supreme Court. Alan shares his thoughts on why court-packing is such a bad idea and why Democrats and Republicans need to prioritize and respect the process over partisan politics. Alan also gives some history on how the Supreme Court nomination process has changed since the nomination of Robert Bork, as well as the effects of Harry Reid ending the filibuster. Alan also shares what he fears is the worst-case scenario for the 2020 election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, we're doing a quick on the fly interview today with the legendary lawyer, legal
0:12.4	scholar and one of the last sane liberals around.
0:15.6	Alan Dershowett's welcome to the Ruben report.
0:17.3	Well, thanks.
0:18.3	It's a pleasure to be on with another sane liberal.
0:22.7	There ain't many left.
0:23.7	We have to have our next meeting in a phone booth.
0:28.1	There's about 10 of us left.
0:30.0	So I just said to you before we started that I'd love to have you back for a full extended
0:34.0	hour long interview that I normally do.
0:36.1	I appreciate you jumping in today because of the Amy Coney parent confirmation yesterday,
0:41.6	just to clean up some of the legal stuff.
0:44.0	I know we could complain about what's happened to the libs all day long, but let's just talk
0:48.6	about some legal stuff today and then we'll pick up and do that in the next couple of
0:52.6	weeks.
0:53.6	So first off, she was confirmed yesterday.
0:55.5	I suspect, although you probably don't agree with perhaps all of her past judicial decisions
1:01.4	or some of her reasoning that you think that her being confirmed was the right decision.
1:07.7	Is that too much of a leading question?
1:09.2	A little bit too much of a leading question.
1:11.1	Okay.
1:12.1	If a decision was going to be made, it was the right decision.
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