Day Two of William Barr’s Confirmation Hearings

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4.6 • 600 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In the second and final day of confirmation hearings for Attorney General nominee William Barr, witnesses testified both for and against his nomination. Some of it was fluff, but some of it was fire. Imani and Jess break down the key takeaways as a confirmation vote draws near.

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0:00.0	Hello, fellow law nerds.
0:09.0	Welcome to another special confirmation hearing episode of Boom Lawyer, a rewire.
0:14.2	Dot News podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that is hot and sweaty.
0:20.1	My name is Imani Gandy. And I'm Jess Beclo.
0:24.9	Rewire. Dot News is dedicated to bringing you the best reproductive rights and social justice
0:29.4	news, commentary, and analysis on the web. And the team legal podcast is part of that mission.
0:34.6	So a big thank you to our subscribers and a welcome to our new listeners.
0:38.5	A welcome to our new listeners. And if you didn't catch yesterday's episode, you should go listen to that.
0:43.8	But today, we're going to talk about day two of the Bill Barr confirmation hearing.
0:50.1	And who boy, it was short, but there was a lot that happened this morning, including
0:55.6	Senator Lindsey Graham getting into a pissing match with the NAACP so much so that I have
1:03.3	expected him to call the NWACP reverse racist.
1:06.6	You do a scorecard every year.
1:09.8	And in 2017, every Democrat got 100%. I got 22%. Grassley got 11.
1:17.2	Cornyn got 11. Kornan got 11. Sass got 6. Ernst got 11. Kennedy got 17. Tillis got 11 and Craybill got 6.
1:28.3	There's a disparity here.
1:29.3	I hope you think that I'm, because I disagree with your scorecard rating, that I'm not a racist,
1:36.3	and I certainly don't know how to close this gap.
1:40.3	So I'd like to.
1:42.3	Right.
1:43.3	So the NAACP were a nonpartisan organization.
1:45.0	Our scorecard is not based on political parties.
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