Unpacking Court Packing
The Ben Ferguson Podcast
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4.8 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
If you watched Judge Barrett's confirmation hearings this week, you might have gotten the impression that the Democrats have given up. But something much more sinister is going on. Following the conclusion of ACB's testimony, Michael Knowles asks Senator Ted Cruz about the impotent performance by Judiciary Democrats and, more importantly, about the radical Left’s shockingly successful attempt to mainstream the idea of packing the court, an idea so outrageous that even Senator Joe condemned it before he became Candidate Joe. Plus, have Facebook and Twitter poked the bear by censoring the New York Post?
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| 0:00.0 | We have got the latest from the Supreme Court confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill with someone who has sat through all of it. |
| 0:08.4 | But before we get to that, let us turn to the Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in 1983 on a topic very, very important to the Supreme Court. |
| 0:19.6 | President Roosevelt clearly had the right to send to the United States Senate |
| 0:23.1 | and the United States Congress a proposal to pack the court. |
| 0:26.0 | It was totally within his right to do that. |
| 0:28.8 | He violated no law. |
| 0:30.8 | He was legalistically absolutely correct, |
| 0:33.7 | but it was a bonehead idea. |
| 0:36.4 | It was a terrible, terrible mistake to make. |
| 0:39.7 | And it put in question for an entire decade the independence of the most significant body, |
| 0:48.3 | including the Congress in my view, the most significant body in this country, |
| 0:52.3 | the Supreme Court of the United States of America. |
| 0:54.9 | Boneheaded, indeed. |
| 0:56.9 | This is Verdict with Ted Cruz. |
| 1:03.8 | Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm Michael Knowles, Senator. |
| 1:07.3 | I do want to get to the Supreme Court hearings. |
| 1:10.2 | You've just come from Capitol Hill. |
| 1:11.8 | But I have to ask you, because you actually know the guy. You've served with the guy. |
| 1:17.9 | What happened to that Joe Biden? I find myself agreeing with that Joe Biden in 1983, then the one today I don't |
| 1:24.9 | know about. Well, look, in 1983, I mean, I was 13, and were you even a sparkle in your daddy's eyes? |
| 1:34.3 | Not for a number of years after that, actually. |
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