Coney barrett and later a look at the how the Affordable Care act is an issue this Election Year with the good morning. Its the washington journal for friday, october 16. Both president and joe biden held separate town halls. A variety of topics were the stuff discussed. Show you short bits from both of those town halls. In our first hour, we will ask you to comment. Us a callt to give and you support President Trump and mike pence, 202 7488001 is the number to call. If you support joe biden, 202 7488000. Maybe watch the town halls, you are undecided at this point, give us a call at 202 7488002. If you want to text us this morning, you can do that. You can post on our twitter feed. Our Facebook Pages available as well. Usa today offering a breakdown of some of the topics at the town halls you saw last night. Here are some of the breakdowns from that. When it comes to President Trump with Savannah Guthrie, they became heated at one point. The president called the moderator so cute and c
Democrats boycotted the vote, she will become the next justice of the u. S. Supreme court with about taking place in just about a halfhour. She is the former clerk for the late justice anthonys scalia, she will fill the seat left vacant by the late Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg, she served on the Supreme Court for 27 years, she passed away last month after a long battle with cancer. Judge barrett was voted out of the Senate Committee last thursday just ten days after hearings for her senate her Supreme Court confirmation in the senate began, despite the radical dems effort to discredit her judge barrett displayed the temperament, the scholarship in the brilliant legal mind necessary for a seat on the high court. For the latest on what we can expect to see we turn to fox news Congressional Correspondent chad program in washington, d. C. Good evening, you are right at about a half hours time they will start the confirmation process for Amy Coney Barrett, we will have a procedural vote to t
Is angry. Why . Because we democrats have exposed that he is defiled the senate as an institution more than any person in this generation and many generations because we democrats have exposed the hypocrisy of holding up marek garland because it was eight months before election and rushing through Amy Coney Barrett decodes it something we can do. The bottom line is leader mcconnell of course he doesnt like hearing these things but they are the truth and they will live on in history a man who defiled. The senate man who created one of the greatest hypocritical acts in the history of the senate sits in that chair. The republican majority is in the senate towards one of the lowest moments in its long history and the damage it does to this chamber may be very well be irreparable after thwarting thele constitutional prerogative of a duly elected democratic president to appoint a Supreme Court justice because it was an Election Year the republican majority is rushing to confirm a justice or
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
Wicker, graham, perdue, grassley, inhofe, cotton, hoeven, crapo, burr, alexander, mr. Mcconnell mr. President. The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell colleagues, my First Experience with Supreme Court confirmations here in the senate, i was a young staffer for a Junior Member of the judiciary committee. That was also the same time i met a young guy named Lamar Alexander who left the senate to go down to the white house to work in congressional affairs. So ive had an opportunity for quite a long time to observe the confirmation process through various ups and downs, periods when nominees were confirmed almost overwhelmingly and periods during which they were heated, to put it mildly, contests over the nomination. What i think i can safely say about the senate over the last 40 or 50 years is that its in an assertive period. In other words, viewing the whole process as a joint thing that the president has a role to play and the senate has a role to play and at various ti