Supreme court justices. Ive never seen one like this. She seems to have no opinion on certain things, even though she has written a great deal about them. She has passed actually a litmus test. Shes told us that she has, shes criticized the Affordable Care act, and she does admit to that, because of course we have the written statement shes made. She has never defended it. She has never defended womens rights to choose. She wont say whether ivf, which is often used today, is a crime as some of her supporters say it is. It was really a strange hearing. Host how does aan reluctance stand specific cases and cases that become before the court, how do those responses compared to recent Supreme Court hearings, both republican appointees of President Trump and the democratic appointees of barack obama . Guest i think the fact that she does want to talk about any possible pending case, i have no problem with that. Thats appropriate. But we were talking about cases that she has decided, stateme
Kind of justice she would be if appointed to the court. Adler, a memorial professor of law at the Case Western University school of law. A graduate of the george mason clarkhool, jonathan served on the d. C. Circuit. Jonathan worked with the Competitive Enterprise Institute or he was a director of their environmental studies program. Anathan has received distinguished teacher of the year award and the federal society for excellent in teaching and commitment to students. Fellow at aa senior he isch center in montana a frequent commentator. His articles appear in many newspapers and scholarly journals. He is the author and editor of several books. He is a regular contributor to the bulletin. Well talk about Administrative Law and due process. After jonathan, well hear from Professor John baker. He is from Louisiana State University School of law. Atis a visiting professor Georgetown School and a guest lecturer at many other universities both here and abroad. Classcurrently teaching via z
Of their choice, including abortion, Voting Rights, the Affordable Care act, and religious liberty. [gavel banging] good morning, everyone. Welcome back. Judge, thank you. A good day yesterday. Your family did great. Cleanup well. You look good. The game plan for today is to do our first round of 30 minute questioning. Each senator will have 30 minutes to interact with judge barrett and then we will follow up with a second round of 20 minutes. We will not get it done today, but we should get through the first 30 minutes and then come back wednesday and finish up and then we will go about our business. I will make sure i stay within 30 minutes and if i can shorten it, i will. Let us get to it. You can start the clock. You can relax a bit, judge, and take your mask off. Yesterday, we had a lot of discussion about Affordable Health care. What i am going to try to do briefly this morning is demonstrate the difference between politics and judging. All of my colleagues on the other side had
Today and two weeks later second and third graders, fourth and at that hearing room where weve seen Amy Coney Barretts fifth gradeers in november. Middle schoolers and high school children, her husband, family members. Students wont head back to a large hearing room where the campus until january. This all comes as california has Supreme Court confirmation seen a dip in covid19 hearings have taken place, but never like this in terms of positivity rates. Timing and what the country is going through. One of the senators seat. I did see some paws painted on in a moment well hear Opening Statements from the senators. The sidewalks and benches so theres Lindsey Graham, the kids are aware of where they republican chair of the Judiciary Committee talking to need to social distance six feet his counterpart, democrat dianne apart. Reporting live in palo alto, feinstein. Sharon katsuda, today in the the ranking democrat on this committee. As we watch this unfold, these bay. Thanks so much, sharo
Learn more about the law and maybe the differences in the party. As to the hearing room, i doubt if there is any room in the country given more attention and detail to make sure city of the architect of the capitol working with the attending physician has set up the room in a fashion we can safely do our business. Senator lee is back and has been cleared by your physician. Welcome back. The covid problem in america is real. It is serious, dangerous, and we have to mitigate the risk. I would let every american know that many of you going to work today and have probably been at work today, and hope your employer will take care of your health care needs, but we do have a country that needs to move forward safely. Millions of americans, cops, todaysses, going to work to do their day and we are going to work in the senate to do our job in one of the most important jobs the Senate Judiciary committee will ever do is have hearings and confirm a justice to the Supreme Court. Purposes, weeeping