Otherwise, this is a charade when they say this is a normal judiciary committee hearing

for Supreme Court nomination. There's nothing about this. It's normal. This hearing itself

is a microcosm of Trump's dangerous ineptitude in dealing with the COVID pandemic.

Trump can't even keep the White House safe.

Hey, everybody.

Welcome to the Muckrake podcast.

I'm J.O.D.Saxon, as always, I'm here with Nick Houseman.

We are taping this on Monday, October 12th as the first day of confirmation hearings

for Amy Coney Barrett are, uh, being held.

Uh, as we all know, this is a stolen Supreme Court seat, uh, that should not exist.

And, uh, Donald Trump right now by by pushing forward, Coney Barrett, stands to change the balance

of the Supreme Court, possibly for decades at this point.

So far, it has been rather uneventful outside of the Republicans showing up, including Mike Lee, who is

apparently, you know, just tested positive for coronavirus, but showed up anyway, because why the hell

not?

What is a disease, Nick?

And, you know, Lindsey Graham, who has refused to take a test.

So we know that this is more or less a petri dish as it's being held and they're trying to

take advantage of their majority while they still can. But we're also seeing take place a battle for

the future. And I don't think that that is at all hyperbolic. What we're actually watching here,

the Republican Party is trying to realize a decades-long operation to control the Supreme

Court and more or less put democracy and ascending demographics and prior vulnerable populations

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