Sen. Graham good morning. I appreciate you being here promptly. As you know, our Democratic Politics informed the committee they will not participate in the hearing. That was their choice. It will be my choice to vote the nominee out of committee. We are not going to allow them to take over the committee. They made a choice not to participate after allowing judge judgeour days merrick four days to be questioned. I thought she did an exceptionally good job of handling the questions. I thought she was aggressively challenged, but not inappropriately. I want to complement my democratic colleagues for not going down the kavanaugh road. I want to complement the republican members for asking questions that matter to you, but showing a tremendous amount of discipline to make sure that on our side the hearing went well. Each of you, when this is over, hope you feel like a sense of accomplishment. This is why we all run. It is moments like this that make everything you go through matter. Wherem
Overturned his that sent in fighting the trial judge made mistakes during jury selection. Just in general, courts dont reverse cases likely. There has to be a compelling reason for them to reverse. Probably in a smaller amount of cases will this ever be discovered. It is rare because in the sense there is almost 2 reversals, a reversal of the death verdict and there is also sort of a reversal of the phase. It has not quite been reversed yet but it is certainly heading in that direction. Reporter we have to make it clear that the two attorneys that you just heard from have no connection to the petersen case. Is there any timeline of when the court will actually re examined his case . We have not heard of anything regarding that but back in august when they overturned his death sentence, they also stated that prosecutors could seek the Death Penalty once again, if peterson is ultimately getting a new trial. We speak exclusively tonight to the criminal defense attorney down in los angeles
Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. Senate debate on Amy Coney Barretts nomination begins at noon eastern. Republicans on the Senate Judiciary committee voted yesterday to move the nomination from the committee to the floor for consideration. Democrats boycotted the vote. The committee voted to authorize subpoenas for the heads of tech and social media companies. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning. I appreciate all of my colleagues being here properly. As you know, our democratic colleagues informed the Committee Last night they will not participate in the hearing. That was their choice. It will be my choice to vote the nominee out of committee. Were not going to allow them to take over the committee. They made a choice not to participate after allowing judge barrett four days, two days to the question. I thought she did an exceptionally good job of handling the questions asked. I thought she was aggressively challenged but not inappropriately. What to co
As you know our democratic colleagues informed the Committee Last that that they will not participate in the hearing. That was their choice and it will be my choice to vote the nominee out of committee. Were not goingce to allow themo take over the committee. They made a choice not to participate after allowing judge barrett four days, two days to be questioned. That should get an exceptionally good job of handling the questions asked. I thought she was aggressively challenged but not inappropriately. I want to complement my democratic colleagues for not going down the cabin or road. I want to complement the republican members of this committee for asking questions that matter to you, showing a tremendous discipline to make sure that on our side the hearing went well, and each of you when this is over, i hope youov feel like a sense of accomplishment. This is why we all run. Its moments like this that make everything you go through matter. Its moments like this where you can tell young
Mcneil, catherine mosel, thompson diaz, United States court of federal claims. Policycontent modernization act. All those will be held over. Mr. Chairman . Under the rules of this committee can i proceed with the business of the Committee Even with a quorum present, there unless there are two members of the minority present as well. I and the only member of the minority that is here. We cannot conduct business until the second member of the minority arrives. Yes, sir. Thank you for the way you have conducted yourself yesterday. It is clear from reading in the paper what is going to happen is we will be denied the ability to operate as normal. That senator schumer said everything is on the table. We have given this nominee a chance to be questioned. Fairly, firmly. I want to congratulate my democratic colleagues for setting a disposition i think will help us all. I know what awaits us. I will now make a motion to report the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett. A motion to vote on the motion