My clock had [inauguration] beginning at 1148 so 12 minutes ahead of time.
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I’m sure you’re correct. I estimated based on when my stomach couldn’t take any more and I stopped watching, but I should have backed it up to account for the couple of minutes it was churning before that.
Regardless of whether it was 10 or 12 minutes early ... I cannot understand this & there seems to be nothing about it. There is lore about how such things are timed and how, for a moment, there is a point, albeit seconds or minutes, where things are in flight. But before the appointed hour? That’s what historically they’ve calculated to ensure that the oath is taken right at the moment & immediately thereafter - not preempting! I don’t see how John Roberts can do that, he’s administering an invalid oath at an improper time and doesn’t object or say anything about it? It’s inexplicable!
Had we waited until noon we would have missed it.