Rotten To The Court
What A Day
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🗓️ 15 October 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Amy Coney Barrett appeared for her last day of Senate questioning yesterday and gave more evasive non-responses. Today is the final day of the hearings, and will feature witness testimony on Barrett’s nomination.
Brian Fallon is the executive director of Demand Justice, a group which pushes for progressive structural reforms and political hardball when it comes to the judiciary. We spoke to him about Barrett’s confirmation and what Democrats need to do differently to fix the courts.
And in headlines: 5.2 million people in the country won’t be able to vote because of felony convictions, Europe faces a second wave of Covid-19, and a major scandal in the Federal Duck Stamp Contest. Plus, Crooked's own Erin Ryan fills in for Akilah Hughes.
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| 0:00.0 | If there's the October 15th, I'm Gideon Ressick. |
| 0:08.9 | And I'm Erin Ryan filling in for Achilles Hughes. |
| 0:11.8 | And this is what a day where we are also hosting a town hall tonight on several local news |
| 0:15.7 | affiliates. |
| 0:16.7 | Okay Gideon, you need to be more specific. |
| 0:18.5 | It is several local public access stations and we will be in Wayne and Garth cosplay. |
| 0:24.0 | Yes, I have been given two lines and they are party on an excellent. |
| 0:30.0 | On today's show, a conversation with Brian Fallon of Demand Justice about the Supreme Court |
| 0:40.7 | hearings and the future of the courts, then some headlines. |
| 0:45.1 | Yesterday was the last day of questioning for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. |
| 0:49.5 | It featured more barn burner Republican questions that nobody would ever ask a male nominee, |
| 0:53.8 | like, quote, who does the laundry in your house? |
| 0:57.8 | And more instances of Barrett going to extremes to not opine on any issues. |
| 1:03.5 | At one point, she said that she was not, quote, competent to opine on what causes global |
| 1:07.7 | warming or not. |
| 1:09.0 | At another point, she declined to say whether Griswald v. Connecticut was decided correctly. |
| 1:14.1 | Griswald is a case from 1965 where the court ruled that married couples have the right |
| 1:18.5 | to buy and use contraceptives without government restrictions or criminal penalty. |
| 1:23.1 | It's a foundational case in the Roe v. Wade ruling and hinges on the right to privacy. |
| 1:27.3 | Because this mean Amy Coney Barrett is antagonistic to birth control. |
| 1:30.6 | I've been sprinkling ground up ortho tricycle and on my cereal every morning just to be safe. |
| 1:36.6 | That is the way. |
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