Will we learn anything from the confirmation hearings?
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Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
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🗓️ 12 October 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Will we learn anything from the confirmation hearings or will it just be reduced to partisan squabbles?
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| 0:00.0 | It's go time for Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett. |
| 0:07.0 | Will she get confirmed? |
| 0:09.0 | Will the Democrats be able to get one or two or three more Republican senators to say, |
| 0:16.5 | you know, we're not so sure. |
| 0:18.7 | You'll hear my predictions on the D Judiciary Committee has begun hearings on the possible confirmation of President Trump's nomination of Judge Barrett |
| 0:35.2 | to serve on the United States Supreme Court and take the seat that was |
| 0:39.4 | previously held by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. |
| 0:43.2 | I watched the beginning, the opening statements, and there were very few surprises. |
| 0:49.7 | The Democrats began with Senator Feinstein, who may be the very reason why Judge Barrett was |
| 0:55.9 | nominated. She badly mishandled Judge Barrett's nomination to the Seventh Circuit three years ago when she looked her in the eye and |
| 1:05.3 | basically accused her of being too religious. She said that the dogma lives |
| 1:10.8 | loudly within you and that is of concern. No, no, no, that's not of |
| 1:16.4 | concern under the Constitution of the United States which prohibits any |
| 1:21.3 | religious test from being imposed on anybody serving or seeking to serve |
| 1:26.9 | in any office under the United States. |
| 1:28.9 | So it's out of bounds constitutionally to attack someone's religion as dogma or to express concern |
| 1:36.4 | about a person's religion per se and as the result of that statement being issued by Senator Feinstein when she was the ranking |
| 1:46.8 | a member of the Judiciary Committee, Judge Barrett leaped to the top of the list to be nominated for the Supreme Court. |
| 1:55.2 | They made t-shirts out of Feinstein's statement, |
| 1:59.0 | the dogma lives loudly within you. |
| 2:01.5 | People who are proud Catholics use that as a badge of courage saying |
| 2:06.3 | yes the dogma lives loudly within us, don't call it dogma perhaps, but it's our |
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