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The Dershow

Will we learn anything from the confirmation hearings?

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 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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