brandishing a gun but never used it. police said at the time the charges were filed that the student didn t even have the right bullets for that gun. joining me now, mark fullman, senior editor with mother jones, frank smooit, and nia malika-henderson, reporter for the washington post. mark, the nra report had a pretty rough first day of fact checking. you re the one that discovered the gem about the minnesota incident that was wrong. what else have you found in fact checking of the report? well, i found the usual things you would expect from a big report from the nra. there s various points where there s slight of hand talking about incidents involving school shootings. i have to say, lawrence, i wasn t surprised to see this in the report. we covered the nra and mass shootings at mother jones for many months, and this is their
brandishing a gun but never used it. police said at the time the charges were filed that the student didn t even have the right bullets for that gun. joining me now, mark follman, senior editor with mother jones, frank smyth, and nia malika-henderson, reporter for the washington post. mark, the nra report had a pretty rough first day of fact checking. you re the one that discovered the gem about the minnesota incident that was wrong. what else have you found in fact checking of the report? well, i found the usual things you would expect from a big report from the nra. there s various points where there s slight of hand talking about incidents involving school shootings. i have to say, lawrence, i wasn t surprised to see this in the report. we covered the nra and mass shootings at mother jones for many months, and this is their
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be, i respectfully say i would have to study it in the course of a judicial case. let me where i it right down to the operative words. whether employees should or should not make inquiries aas to whether an applicant or employee intends to become pregnant. senator, it sounds like you re asking me a case for a controversy, and with all respect, when we come to cases and controversies, a good judge will listen. sock tease said the first virtue of a good judge is to i think you know why i m asking these questions. this one i don t. the reason i m asking is because about your views on pregnancy women in the workplace is because two of your former students from legal ethics and professionalism class last spring wrote to this committee to say how troubled they were by your comments in april 19th class. it was a gender targeted discussion regarding the hardship to kbrsz of having female employees who may use maternity benefits. one of these students signed her name publicly to her
that student didn t just make this issue up after you were nominated. last night, the university of colorado law school confirmed that she had voiced her concerns with administrators shortly after your april 19th class and also confirmed that the administrators told her they would raise this matter with you, though they never actually did so. en we recei information like this which raises questions out your views and conduct on important issues, i want to get to the bottom of it. i mention that to you yesterday in my opening statement that i would be bringing this up so i just want to ask you to confirm, did you ask your students in class that day to raise their hands if they knew of a woman who had taken maternity benefits from a company and then left the company after having a baby? no, senator, and i d be delighted to actually clear this up. please. because the first i heard of this was the night before my confirmation hearing. i ve been teaching legal ethics at the university