Situation now where a bare majority decides the future of the court. it s what we re dealing with today, i m not ignoring it. i have been around my state this weekend and people are anxious about health care, they re anxious about the detention of people seeking asylum in the united states. they want to know what is going to happen with this court nominee. they are so anxious that key rights that have been bestowed upon americans are going to be rolled back, so yes, they want to know what we re going to do about it, and what i want to make perfectly clear is that this is not a normal supreme court justice vote. you know for sure that your vote is changing the balance and i want all my colleagues to have the time to take, that it s not a rushed process, to know whether this nominee is going to uphold those american rights or not. that is what we deserve to know. what s the definition of a rushed process? should it be delayed until after the election or should we know
Precedent unless there s a good reason. i tell my pro-life friends you can be pro-life and conservative, but roe v. wade has been affirmed many ways over the years. i hope the justice that sits on the court, all of them, would listen to the argument on both side but story decisis is a well known concept in our law. are you going to vote for somebody that doesn t believe in that? i m not going to vote for anybody who tells me they decide the case before the facts are presented to them. i don t expect them to tell me i will overturn roe v. wade. i have a bill that says because a baby can feel pain 20 weeks during the birthing process there s a compelling interest to protect a child from abortion at that period. that s a novel issue that s
Up. now it s too late and they can only message the way we saw senator cantwell do the best she could. one thing that strikes me so much, especially as someone who covered the campaign in 2016, when you look at the exiting polling data, how much that supreme court opening was such a motivating factor for republicans in particular. you just led to a traffic gr prepared. i didn t know. one of five voters said the court was the number one issue. among those voters, 56% were trump and clinton was 41%. that s a problem that the democrats have now. you have groups like demand justice that are mobilizing now because all of a sudden they see the supreme court is important. i think you ll see that number grow for democrats. now that there s nothing the democrats can do to stop it. you were talking about the support of evangelicals, donald trump is term limited.
Support for the president trump character. but is he right? he s right to a degree. and the degree is this. evangelicals voted for this president predominantly, especially the ones on the fins, not the ones in alabama at the rallies, the ones who came held with their noses held to a degree, they voted for the supreme court. they believe he is god s chosen candidate for such a time as this. this is the word on the street in the evangelical world. and so along comes a second supreme court nomination and they re like, here you go. we, as in evangelicals, have a chance to reshape this court for a long time. it ll be interesting to see murkowski and collins. everyone talks about the big supreme court fight to come, the fight is now. the fight is how is this candidate going to be defined in terms of trump s mind. how much murkowski and collins and potentially others can get to this. we did a poll on the issue of abortion with republican
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