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Boom! Lawyered

Kavanaugh Day 1: Changing the Rules

Boom! Lawyered

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Immigration, Law, Jeff Sessions, Trials, History, Racial, Scotus, News, Government, Reproductive, Supreme Court, Discrimination, Politics, Lgbtq, Justice

4.6600 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Imani and Jess recap and explain the most important takeaways—and most infuriating moments—from day one of the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

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0:00.0

Less than 15 hours ago, 42,000 pages of documents that we have not had an opportunity to review or read or analyze.

0:10.1

You're out of order. I'll proceed.

0:12.8

Mr. Chairman, I ask for a roll call vote on my motion to adjourn.

0:21.9

Hello, fellow law nerds. Two, three, four. Two, three, four.

0:23.6

Hello, fellow law nerds.

0:25.1

Welcome to a special confirmation hearing episode of Boom Lawyred, a rewire.

0:30.0

Dot News podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that really should have started drinking wine at 6 a.m. this morning.

0:38.6

I'm I'm Imani Gandhi.

0:45.2

And I'm Jess Piclo. Rewire. News is the leading non-profit journalism outlet devoted to reporting on reproductive and sexual health, rights, and justice, and the Team Legal Podcast is part of that

0:50.5

mission. A big thank you to our subscribers and a welcome to our new listeners.

0:54.6

You definitely picked a hell of a time to join us. Who boy did you ever. So today we are going

1:02.2

to go over the very first day of Brett, or as Chuck Grassley repeatedly called him, Brent,

1:07.8

Kavanaugh. This confirmation hearing started today.

1:13.5

And for those who didn't watch, Jessica, I mean, it was like a Herculean effort watching

1:18.6

her live TV proceedings starting at like 7.30 this morning, which was like eight hours

1:24.4

ago or whatever.

1:25.3

Wow.

1:26.0

There's a lot of tweeting.

1:26.8

For folks who didn't watch Jessica, what did they miss?

1:29.8

Oh, man.

1:30.5

It was a full first day.

1:32.4

So typically, first days of confirmation hearings aren't really that exciting.

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