President trump announced your nomination, he tweeted obamacare will be replaced with a much better and far cheaper alternative. In reality, there is no alternative that protects the millions of americans who depend on the Affordable Care act every day. The truth is President Trump and the republicans in congress are fighting to take Health Care Away from the American People in the middle of a pandemic. President trump has said he wants to protect the American Peoples health care. The reality is right now hes asking the Supreme Court to take it away. Klobuchar asked you earlier today but did not receive an answer, prior to your nomination, were you aware of President Trumps statement committing to nominate judges who will strike down the Affordable Care act . I would appreciate a yes or no answer. Be barrett i want to careful. As im sitting here, i do not recall seeing those statements. I do not recall seeing or hearing those statements, but i do not know what context they were in. I c
To the stories that you have told, including the story of veronicas family. Very moving. If i were a justice, the commitment i would make to you and to all people affected by follows is that i would the law as you enacted it, and i have no agenda. I would not be coming in with any agenda. I would do equal justice under the law for all, and not try to force or disrupt in any way the quality choices that you and your colleagues have adopted. Sen. Hirono so are you saying that the impact of the Affordable Care act on the millions of people who rely upon it, that you would deem to be policy considerations that we should address . Sen. Hirono senator, i think that you choose the law and you have structured the Affordable Care act. You set the policies. And i think when a court has to interpret those statutes or decide how it applies in a Certain Circumstance, the court looks to traditional legal materials, looks to the briefs, listens to the real world impacts on the litigants before the co
Confirmation hearings. This portion included hearings from senators kamala harris, john kennedy and marsha blackburn. I apologize. Senator harris, is she available . Harris. There you are. We see you. Can you Say Something . Can you hear me, senator . Sen harris yes i can. Great. The floor is yours. Sen harris thank you. I want to extend greetings to judge barrett. I look forward to our conversation this evening. Judge barrett thank you, senator. Sen harris before i begin, i want to take a moment to talk directly to the American People. About where we are and how we got here. We are in the middle of a deadly pandemic that has hit our country harder than any other country in the world. More than 215,000 of our fellow americans have died. Millions more, including the president , republican members of this committee, and more than 100 frontline workers here at the capitol complex have been infected. This pandemic has led to a crash, causingic millions of workers to lose their jobs without
I have been in business for 37 years. I fix problems and solve issues every day for my client to get they do not have it in their head to reduce the costs. We are scheduled for one hour but we are going to leave time for q a. Turn off your cell phones or leave them on silent. This is being taped. If you want, and he views the interweb, please use the twitter acslaw and the official is tag is acs2023. If you want credit, submit two codes which i will provide during the program. One is at the beginning. It is birch. Somewhere in the middle, i will say the second cle code. You can enter them on the acs page. You can ask one of the volunteers here were email lc emails acslaw clemails acslaw. Org. I would like to introduce our wonderful panel and myself. My name is jennie bond. I use she her pronouns. I am at a global advocacy organization. I look in state and federal courts against abortion bands and restrictions. I have been everywhere including in mississippi in the dobbs versus jackson
On behalf of the Texas Tribune, i am thrilled to welcome you to the festival and this panel on trump in the resistance. We have a traffic lineup as you can see. As im sure you all know, first we need to introduce them. To my immediate left is cecile richards. [applause] [applause] if you dont know, she is president of the planned Parenthood Federation of america and planned Parenthood Action Fund. She has been a tireless fighter for reproductive rights and in 2011, she led the federal funding for planned parenthood. [applause] next is the speaker of the colorado house of representatives. She has represented. [applause] she has represented her district in central denver since 2010. She is majority leader for 2015 and 2016 session and was elected speaker in 2016 as well. That same year, she was the recipient of the rising star award. Next. [applause] [applause] it is really exciting. She was on the ground in ferguson missouri when it erupted in protest over the death of michael brown. Si