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🗓️ 10 July 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump with the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh has fulfilled or is fulfilling two of his campaign promises. |
| 0:08.0 | First, to undo women's reproductive freedom, second, to undo ACA. |
| 0:13.5 | And so I will oppose him with everything I've got. |
| 0:17.5 | I do not ask about a nominee's personal opinions. |
| 0:21.5 | Tomorrow, I begin meeting with members of the Senate. |
| 0:24.5 | He's starting. I don't want to call it a beauty pageant. |
| 0:27.0 | It's sort of making his rounds on the hill. |
| 0:29.0 | And a judge's job is not to be making social policy for America. |
| 0:33.0 | If confirmed by the Senate, I will keep an open mind in every case. |
| 0:43.0 | Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. |
| 0:45.0 | The show about the man about to be welcomed in Great Britain with a state dinner from Queen Elizabeth |
| 0:51.0 | and a blimp over Parliament depicting him as a giant orange baby. |
| 0:55.0 | Donald Trump. I'm Jacob Oyster. |
| 0:58.0 | Let's talk about Trump and the Supreme Court. |
| 1:01.0 | Supreme Court nominations are the rare case where Trump hasn't been the norm breaker, |
| 1:06.0 | unless you count the theatrics like his absurd reveal of the winners of his beauty pageant. |
| 1:11.0 | He hasn't chosen pretend justices from Fox News or performers from Duck Dynasty. |
| 1:16.0 | He picked Neil Gorsuch and now Brett Kavanaugh to experience credentialed conservative jurists |
| 1:22.0 | from the same Federalist Society list that Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush picked from. |
| 1:27.0 | Say what you will about their ideology or their jurisprudence, they're highly qualified nominees. |
| 1:33.0 | No, the norm breaker is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who in 2016 created a new rule out of thin air. |
| 1:41.0 | A rule that a president doesn't get to fill Supreme Court vacancies in an election year. |
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