She sent plenty of signals in the past about what she feels about the Affordable Care act. My friend from south dakota who says you dont know how she is going to rule, there is some truth to that. She could change your mind. But i tell you if you were a betting person, you would say the statements she made criticizing chief Justice Roberts for saving the Affordable Care act, other statements that she has made about the law itself suggest she will not be a friend when she has the opportunity to vote. Do we take that seriously . On behalf of 600,000 people in illinois, you bet i do. It directly relates to this pandemic, the opportunity for people across this country to have the coverage they need. Im going to tell a quick story about one of them. I have a quote of her here that i want to share with people, a situation that she faces. Sorry that i dont have that in front of me, but im going to tell the story anyway because i remember it. Her last name is daninberger. She is from new berli
Constitution . First of all, i think that its improper to even be considering a nominee right now when we are in the middle of an election. Not just an election year, the election is happening right now with half a million ballots already cast in early voting states. Not to mention that we are in the middle of the pandemic and the senate is taking away an important time that should be devoted to dealing with those virgin, crucial issues in these next five weeks. Aside, i thinkt theres a real legitimacy question when you have the public voting right now for the president and the senate, the folks thatof the deal with nomination and confirmation of a Supreme Court justice, and if there is a lack of public space in the way that process works, there is going to be a crisis of legitimacy for ae Supreme Court it relies on really public believe in its legitimacy in order for its ruling to be voluntarily and sometimes for grudgingly, but still happily followed. Guest it gives me great concern
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Check us out at our website. Host from the perspective you take, when you consider someone like Amy Coney Barrett constantly possibly going to the Supreme Court, what are the concerns from the stands she takes on interpreting the constitution . First of all, i think that its improper to even be considering a nominee right now when we are in the middle of an election. Not just an election year, the election is happening right now with half a million ballots already cast in early voting states. Not to mention that we are in the middle of the pandemic and the senate is taking away an important time that should be devoted to dealing with those virgin, crucial issues in these next five weeks. Aside, i thinkt theres a real legitimacy question when you have the public voting right now for the president and the senate, the folks thatof the deal with nomination and confirmation of a Supreme Court justice, and if there is a lack of public space in the way that process works, there is going to be
A reversal and if you look at the people we would pay people hundreds of thousands of dollars to teach very bad ideas and frankly very sick ideas and really they were teaching people to hate our country and im not going to do that im not going to allow that to happen we have to go back to the core values of this country they were teaching people that our country is a horrible place its a racist place and they were teaching people to hate our country and im not going to allow that to happen Vice President biden nobodys down there hes just he heart races you just dont heres the deal i know a lot more mother doesnt hurt let him finish. The fact is that there is racial insensitivity people have to be made aware of what other people feel like what if what insults them what is the meaning to them its important people know they dont want to many people dont want to hurt other peoples feelings but its me it makes a big difference it makes a gigantic difference in the way a child is able to gro