Sen. Mazie Hirono, the dumbest member of the US Senate, wears a mask showing former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg during a confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Posted on 10/13/2020 3:30:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett will face senators’ questions over her approach to health care, legal precedent and even the presidential election during a second day of confirmation hearings on track to lock in a conservative court majority for years to come.
The mood is likely to shift to a more confrontational tone as Barrett, an appellate court judge with very little trial court experience, is grilled in 30-minute segments Tuesday by Democrats gravely opposed to President Donald Trump’s nominee, yet virtually powerless to stop her rise. Republicans are rushing her to confirmation before Election Day.
“This should not be President Trump’s judge,” said Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Democrats say the winner of the presidential election should choose the nominee.
“This should be your judge,” she said.
Barrett presented her approach to the law as conservative and fair on Monday at the start of fast-tracked confirmation hearings. Democrats cast her as a threat to Americans’ health care coverage during the coronavirus pandemic.
With her husband and six of their seven children behind her in a hearing room off-limits to the public and altered for COVID-19 risks, Barrett delivered views at odds with the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the liberal icon whose seat Trump nominated her to fill, laying out a judicial philosophy she has likened to that of her conservative mentor, the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
“Courts are not designed to solve every problem or right every wrong in our public life,” declared the 48-year-old federal appeals court judge, removing the protective mask she wore most of the day to read from a prepared statement.
Americans “deserve an independent Supreme Court that interprets our Constitution and laws as they are written,” Barrett told the committee.
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Sen. Mazie Hirono, the dumbest member of the US Senate, wears a mask showing former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg during a confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Why didn't the AP consider this a problem with Justice Kagan?
“Sen. Mazie Hirono, the dumbest member of the US Senate,...”
That, Sir, is a brazen assertion, to which several other liberal senators may take exception, as they vie for that title.
“Republicans are rushing her to confirmation before Election Day”
It took 3 AP journos to write up all that bias
The mask will remind Masey just how selfish a person Ruth was.
The Amy Coney Barrett hearings will have to precede without me. I have zero interest in watching Lindsey Graham’s mess.
“an appellate court judge with very little trial court experience,
Why didn’t the AP consider this a problem with Justice Kagan?”
Also, The Supreme Court IS an appellate court!
I thought they weren’t suppose to discuss future cases that might come up.
I have to say I’m disappointed with Senate Dems. Last SCOTUS hearing they framed the nominee as a gang rapist & lined up a ton of “accusers” to fabricate stories about him. Imagine how much effort & organizational skill that required. But this time around it looks like they’re not even trying. Putting up a bunch of lame posters in the room? Come on, man!!
Are these people still in high school? Never emotionally advanced beyond the age of 15.
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