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Judge Brett Kavanaugh has his day before the Senate.

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I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

Well, the news cycle just keeps on going.

It doesn't matter that you took the weekend off.

The news did not take the weekend off. And so we are back here to review all of it with you. And we'll go through all of it in just one second. But first, let me remind you that our national debt is $21 trillion in counting. That is greater than the entire economic output of the United States. If your entire life savings is tied to the US dollars, you should ask yourself this. What happens if the government decides to inflate its way out of debt?

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So actually, you know what? Let's not begin with Nike. Screw that. Let's start with the, let's start with the

judicial hearing. So this morning, Brett Kavanaugh, who is the judge, who is now being appointed by

President Trump to the Supreme Court of the United States, was scheduled to have his opening hearing

at the Senate Judiciary Committee. Now, all of this is a giant waste of time. It's a giant waste of time and has been for 40 years because, number one, nobody actually wants the answers to their questions. Instead, we just go through this rigmarole to pretend that these judges don't already know what they are going to decide on certain cases. And then we ask them,

and then they lie, and then they go on the court, and they do exactly what we all thought they were going to do before, unless there are a Republican appointee, in which half the cases they do exactly the opposite of what we thought they were going to do before. In any case, Brett Kavanaugh is a textualist. He's somebody who takes the text of the Constitution seriously, and that means that the Democrats oppose him.

How do we know they oppose him?

Well, because they've said so.

Senator Cory Booker has already come out and opposed him. Senator Kamala Harris from California, she's already come forward and opposed him. But that's not going to stop the Democrats from pretending that the real reason they don't want to give Brett Kavanaugh a vote is because they just don't have enough information on Brett Kavanaugh. So they say, we need millions of pages of everything that Brett Kavanaugh has ever written in order for us to determine whether he should sit on the Supreme Court of the United States. Again, this is a stupid line considering they have already come out preemptively and said that they don't support Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court of the United States. Well, once you've said that, what's the point of these hearings? Now, they're doubly useless. Number one, even if we were going to pretend that they were useful, you're not really seeking answers from these prospective justices. And number two, when you've already said you're voting against the guy, are we supposed to take your protestations seriously that if you don't get the materials, you're not going to vote in favor of Brett Kavanaugh?

So naturally, the whole thing devolved into farce. Remember, the only reason Republicans can

ram through the justice they want right now is because Harry Reid, the former Senate majority

leader when he was in power from 2008 till 2010, Harry Reid rammed

through, actually it was all the way until 2014.

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