Majority has left us no choice. We are boycotting this illegitimate hearing. The nomination of Amy Coney Barrett is the most illegitimate process i have ever witnessed in the senate, and her potential confirmation will have dire, dire consequences for the senate for the Supreme Court, and our entire country for generations to come. The Senate Republican majority is conducting the most rushed the most partisan, and the least legitimate nomination to the Supreme Court in our nations history. Her potential confirmation will have dire consequences for the senate, for the Supreme Court, and our entire country for generations to come. The Senate Majority is conducting the most rushed, the most partisan, and the least legitimate process in the long history of Supreme Court nominations. Democrats will not lend a single ounce of legitimacy to this s ham vote in the Judiciary Committee. Democrats will not lend a single ounce of legitimacy to this awful, awful hearing. We are voting with our feet
[no audio] lets go over why we are here. We are waiting for her. I wonder if that is going to stop. Sen. Schumer ok, everybody. Thank you very much for coming, and thank you for joining us this morning. I am here to stand with my colleagues on the Judiciary Committee who are boycotting todays Committee Markup on the nomination of judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. This is not a decision the members of the committee have taken lightly, but a republican majority has left us no choice. We are boycotting this illegitimate hearing. The nomination of Amy Coney Barrett is the most illegitimate process i have ever witnessed in the senate, and her potential confirmation will have dire, dire consequences for the senate , for the Supreme Court, and our entire country for generations to come. The Senate Republican majority is conducting the most rushed, the most partisan, and the least legitimate nomination to the Supreme Court in our nations history. Her potential confirmation will hav
And often em coarse and often embarrassing questions. They see the Supreme Court and, indeed, the entire federal judiciary as policymakers rather than neutral arbiters of the law. Judge barrett made the clash between the radical dems and republicans all the clearer. This is her view of the court and a role of judges to uphold the law as written. Judges cant just wake up one day and say i have an awe agenda, i like guns, i hate guns, i like abortion, i hate abortion, and walk in like a row yall queen and impose, you know, their will on the world. I interpret the constitution as a law that i interpret text as text, and i understand it to have the meaning that it had at the time people ratified it. So that meaning doesnt change over time, and its not up to me to update it or infuse my own policy views into it. Lou the dems today also exposing their ang sue few about joe biden anxiety i think about joe bidens chances next month against President Trump. So much so, senator Patrick Leahy ask
And often em coarse and often embarrassing questions. They see the Supreme Court and, indeed, the entire federal judiciary as policymakers rather than neutral arbiters of the law. Judge barrett made the clash between the radical dems and republicans all the clearer. This is her view of the court and a role of judges to uphold the law as written. Judges cant just wake up one day and say i have an awe agenda, i like guns, i hate guns, i like abortion, i hate abortion, and walk in like a row yall queen and impose, you know, their will on the world. I interpret the constitution as a law that i interpret text as text, and i understand it to have the meaning that it had at the time people ratified it. So that meaning doesnt change over time, and its not up to me to update it or infuse my own policy views into it. Lou the dems today also exposing their ang sue few about joe biden anxiety i think about joe bidens chances next month against President Trump. So much so, senator Patrick Leahy ask
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