Can the president use race to pick Supreme Court Justices? Dershow 2
The Dershow
Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
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🗓️ 24 February 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dirt Show. You're watching me live, but for those of you who miss me, you |
| 0:13.0 | can't watch me live at 5.30 on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. You can watch me record it |
| 0:19.3 | anytime, just go on Rumble and press the Dirt Show and you'll see the whole show. I |
| 0:25.7 | obviously I love it when you're live and I'm live and we're really talking to each other. |
| 0:31.6 | Yesterday, as you remember, I spent most of the show on the issue of whether the president |
| 0:39.7 | should, could, constitutionally announce in advance that he was going to appoint to |
| 0:46.4 | the Supreme Court nominate, because it has to be confirmed, obviously, only a black |
| 0:51.9 | woman. And I made a strong argument. I thought that, no, no, that wouldn't be proper, but |
| 0:59.1 | a number of people have responded in one guy, in particular, a lawyer from Florida wrote |
| 1:05.7 | a long, long argument saying the president can appoint anybody he wants, anybody, the Senate |
| 1:13.9 | may not confirm a person or require that he take a religious test, but according to |
| 1:20.1 | this guy, and according to some others that have written to me, the president can announce |
| 1:23.9 | in advance, I'm only going to appoint a Christian or I'm only going to appoint a Jew or I'm |
| 1:27.9 | only going to appoint a Muslim, or more realistically, he could say, and I think, as some have said, |
| 1:34.2 | I will never appoint an atheist to this Supreme Court. You can't say that, because the |
| 1:41.4 | constitution itself, and you're going to read you from Article 6 of the Constitution, |
| 1:47.5 | no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification for any office or public trust |
| 2:01.0 | under the United States. Obviously, a position on the Supreme Court is an office of public |
| 2:08.1 | trust in the United States. And obviously, if a president says that no one is qualified |
| 2:15.9 | for that office, who's not a Christian, who's not a believer, who's not a Jew, who's |
| 2:19.9 | not a Muslim, that person would be violating the Constitution. The same Article 6 also |
| 2:24.7 | says that all executive officers of the government, which obviously means the president shall |
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