Good morning, welcome, judge. Welcome to all my colleagues. It is a long day but i thought a productive day. We have 20 minute rounds and hopefully we can be done in time before dinner tonight and we will plow ahead and have a few breaks along the way. So, a couple observations from yesterday. Theres an opportunity here to thinkinghe nominees to the extent she can share her thoughts without deciding a particular case that comes before her. Senator harris who are respect suggested you were not candid and judge barrett, i could not disagree more. I have been here for a few of these, i have voted for every nominee that has come before the committee. They have one thing in common, all of you are highly qualified, cape will people. I saw that in just a sotomayor and Justice Kagan submitted by president obama. Definitely did not share their legal philosophy, i expected them to be fairly solid votes for the liberal side of the court and generally speaking, they have been, that they have done
Television company as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett was back on capitol hill free third day in a row to answer another round of questions at her confirmation hearing. This time, Committee Members had up to 20 minutes each to question judge barrett on her legal philosophy and other issues including abortion, Voting Rights and the Affordable Care act. Good morning, welcome, judge. Welcome to all my colleagues. It is a long day but i thought a productive day. We have 20 minute rounds and hopefully we can be done in time before dinner tonight and we will plow ahead and have a few breaks along the way. So, a couple observations from yesterday. Theres an opportunity here to thinkinghe nominees to the extent she can share her thoughts without deciding a particular case that comes before her. Senator harris who are respect suggested you were not candid and judge barrett, i could not disagree more. I have been here
Unfiltered view of government. Created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Nominee amyourt Coney Barrett was back on capitol hill for a third day in a row to answer another round of questions at her confirmation hearing. This time, Committee Members had up to 20 minutes each to question judge merrick on her judge barrett on her legal philosophies and other issues. Good morning, welcome, judge. Welcome to all my colleagues. It is a long day but i thought a productive day. We have 20 minute rounds and hopefully we can be done in time before dinner tonight and we will plow ahead and have a few breaks along the way. So, a couple observations from yesterday. Theres an opportunity here to thinkinghe nominees to the extent she can share her thoughts without deciding a particular case that comes before her. Senator harris who are respect suggested you were not candid and judge barrett, i could not disagree more. I hav
Heretics,d we were but we try to be nice heretics, and it was not until the late 70s that the governor of missouri lifted that ban. Would haveosh hawley lifted it for us had it not been lifted by then. Religious liberty has always been interesting to me for that reason, and also just as a lawyer. ,y late father, also a lawyer worked on and advised Congress Regarding the religious freedom restoration act. My longtime professional mentor was someone that i worked with in establishing a first of its kind religious Institutions Practice Group a couple of decades ago. Catholics, like members of my faith have also been subjected to religious persecution from time to time. Cases, we are directly targeted through blame amendments. Provisions worked into state constitutions, really four, in many cases, latently anticatholic purposes. They had as their purpose the restricting of public funds going to certain religious institutions including schools. Yearfully, earlier this the Supreme Court in e
And you havent written on severability of the aca, have you . I have not. Thank you. And now, heres a quote im sure youre familiar with in preparing for this. Its been used in the last few days. Quote j is throwing out preclearance when it is work is continuing to work, to stop this dit krim tory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because youre not getting wet. Have you heard that before . I believe thats from the dissent in Shelby County. By Justice Ginsburg. Is that correct . I believe so. Actually, it is. She was talking about and warning about striking down section 5 of the Voting Rights act. Now, Shelby County is almost like immediately after Shelby County came down states started making changes. 20 states enacted new restrictions on voting. And some of those restrictions have been horrendous. Do you know how many polling places that have arbitrarily been closed across the country sin the shelby decision . I do not know, senator. Its at least 1600. Now, fol