Transcripts For CSPAN Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barret

I want to finish and i will restate the question. Are you there . Yes, i am. Clark, i will restate the question more singly. Uccictly. They want to substitute their own judgments for the legislature. My concern about judge barrett is that her candor indicates an approach, an active one to the Second Movement that would possibly strike down common. Ense gun violence measures other measures that are designed to stop gun violence. Of janeterned because rice, who is still grieving her son. Barton, whoman, was mourning for her brother. Sons who have a hole forr heart further their son ethan. We are a safer state because of the victims and survivors of gun violence whether newtown or Downtown Hartford and all across the state, often in communities of color. Every neighborhood, every family, every community is vulnerable to the scourge an epidemic of gun violence. Thate ask you about regionalismlosophy, originalism has applied to the second mimic. Could that lead to striking down those laws that state legislatures and hopefully congress one day will enact to make america safer. Thank you, senator blumenthal. In our analysis of judge merricks record her second judge barretts record, we likely it would be more she would seek to expand an individuals right to obtain and use and she would be invited to likely resist restrictions on purchase of guns. Closely. T her decision wrote, which was authored along with two other which somene in observers said it is in conflict with every other appellate court. Senator,ly concerned, she would put herself on the scale of providing more access and easy access to guns in our country. Thank you very much. You like to turn to described in your testimony of being a survivor of sexual abuse. You state you are the person you are today at 16 years old because you had access to an abortion. Heard mymay have asking judge barrett if she thought, from a legal position, roe v. Wade was correctly decided. Including in cases where pregnancy was the result of sexual abuse. I brought to her the story of a rape victim and survivor and had an abortion. How did you feel knowing that judge barrett simply would not answer the question about whether roe v. Wade and griswold v. Connecticut were correctly decided . Senator, thank you for that question. It is deeply disturbing. It just makes me think no one cared about consent when i was being sexually abused. People deserve the right to consent, autonomy and dignity. We stand against this nomination. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I have a letter for the National Education association which represents 3 million educators serving 50 million students. They are urging the senate to focus on a covid19 relief bill and not rush to confirm President Trumps nominee. That is not what the American People want. I asked for consent to enter this into the record, buster chairman. Thank you mr. Chairman. I have a few questions for ms. Clark. The Supreme Courts Shelby County decision, the clearance of the voting right act, which requires jurisdictions with a history of voting discrimination to get approval for changes to their voting laws. After Shelby County, over a dozen states passed restrictive voting laws. I asked your spirit if Voter Suppression or discrimination currently exists. She refused to answer and pointed out the Supreme Court did not address section 2 of the Voting Rights act, but the Supreme Court has recently decided to take up this issue. Provision, section 2 puts the burden on those challenging the voting law to show the Supreme Court would result in a denial over abridgment of the right of any citizen to vote. This makes it hard to prevail . Wouldnt you agree . Yes, senator. I completely agree. Section 2 is not a substitute for the important protections. I think everyone should understand what burden shifting really will result in. There has to basically be a casebycase reading of these laws to challenge if the law passed a state actually suppresses the vote. That is a pretty tough burden. Requiredsion basically to show theirons provision did not suppress votes , is that correct . Litigation has been more costly, more time intensive and more i think the Supreme Court in making that decision should have predicted that was exactly what was going to happen. They should have predicted a lot of states would begin to pass all kinds of laws that would have the effect of suppressing votes, especially of minorities and blacks. Her cases reviewed on the seventh circuit. I found two of her cases relating to discrimination in the workplace, particularly concerning. The first was eeoc versus autozone. She voted to not rehear a Panel Decision that in essence approved a separate but equal arrangement. Where she joined an opinion that effectively approved of age discrimination against job applicants. In a little more depth why the Lawyers Committee was concerned about judge barretts record on workers and civil rights . Thank you, senator. In the area of workers rights we examined, judge merrick demonstrated an inclination to with corporations and employers over employees. We are deeply concerned about the eeoc versus autozone case. Judge barrett essentially, along with four other judges, refused to pay federal government request for a full panel review of a case involving an employer, here autozone, which chose to intentionally segregate employees on the basis of race. They assigned employees based on race. They did so flippantly. Found this was not becausesegregation people were paid the same and received benefits. We find this deeply disturbing. We do not need to return to era where there is intentional racial segregation in society. Judge barrett authored a Decision Holding that a black Traffic Control driver failed to make a case he was fired in retaliation for making complaints of racial bias. Worker wase the subject to racial slurs. His coworkers viewed used the word on multiple occasions. While the judge recognize this as a racial epithet, there was not sufficient basis define he was subject to a hostile work environment. When you look at the sum total of judge barretts record in the title vii context, it raises great concern about her willingness to protect victims of discrimination in the workplace and seems to make clear her orientation to protect the rights of corporations and businesses. Y, shouldnt that have been a violation . Agree, senator, but we looked at her record and it reflected the pattern. The pattern we see across both of these cases indicates a judge who would not be inclined to enforce title vii of the civil rights act, one of our nations most important federal civil rights laws when it comes to protecting workers in the workplace. I have every reason to believe she is somebody who would side with corporations and businesses. That have a Supreme Court already is protecting corporate interests over individual rights. Thank you. I want to thank the witnesses it is more i ignored them than anything else. [laughter] i appreciate that. It has been extraordinary to and from all of you frankly crystal moved me with her testimony. I am thankful. I want to thank you for coming in and being around all these people and their hot air. I am mad you brought up my classmate noah feldman. I thought i could make it to the hearing without hearing about my professor, chela mark. I want to focus on ms. Clark if i can. I want to thank you for your really important testimony. I talked about concerns around race. In the middle of one of our largest racial recognize nings, i wonder if you can ground my concern on the actual writings of hers and talk about miranda first. You, senator booker. We are at interesting moment. People are protesting Racial Injustice and unconstitutional policing practices. We looked closely at one of her articles where she talked at length about miranda, the miranda doctrine. She describes it as the court choice to over enforce a constitutional norm that she says goes beyond constitutional meaning. She suggested miranda warnings throughout time have led to the exclusion of evidence even when some were freely given a confession was freely given. I am concerned a Justice Barrett would mean a court that would be more inclined to chip away at the Constitutional Rights of. Hose who are accused of crimes we know our system is disproportionately composed of black people and people of color. This is an area of great concern. The history of africanamericans in the criminal Justice System being wrongfully convicted is pretty staggering, even up to recent months. That is correct, senator. Affectsthat racism virtually every stage of the criminal Justice System from who gets stopped on the streets to length of sentences, to who gets a death penalty. Those of the kinds of cases that routinely come before the court. In many respects this is a lifeanddeath issue for black people and people of color who are subjected to punishment at the highest levels in our criminal Justice System. There is a lot written about this. A lot of studies of help africanamericans in particular churnedle have been into a system forgot this of innocence or facts. Whyre familiar with innocent people plead guilty, correct . We have a criminal Justice System that no logger has trials. 90 of our criminal convictions are done by plea bargain. Are you familiar with the example after example, dozens of dozens in my time as mayor of young people caught up in the criminal Justice System that plead out just to get out of jail, correct . Yes. We are deeply familiar with the resurgence of debtors prison. And entangle poor people people of color in the criminal Justice System because of their poverty. Question. To ask a the first, visited rikers island, the youth lockup, i was stunned. I was already mayor of the city of newark. I was there thinking of visiting people who convicted crimes. I was met with a bunch of teenagers. I asked how long they had been there. Six months, eight months, a year. Them. Ths for one of these were people in for accusationsinor where they were stuck in the criminal Justice System. Yesterday, weed have a system that treats you better if you are rich and guilty than if you are poor and innocent. This is not an occasional miscarriage of justice. These go on and thousands of cases in every city in america where you see young people put into solitary confinement which is still legal in most states which psychological professionals call torture. Then the other out of prison after the psychological effects, still not convicted of anything. System. Rife within the basic protections like miranda are the over securing of rights . That is an astonishing lack of knowledge about what actually goes on in our criminal Justice System every single day. To sit on the highest court in know about what anybody who works in the criminal justice world i have seen judges break down in tears about having to follow mandatory minimums. I have seen prosecutors come to me and say there has got to be different way. The concern i had about not being familiar with some of these basic studies coming from you know this. I will not name the people in the right, the organizations. Some vilified at this hearing that i found common cause with the correct some of these tragedies. Is anything im saying overstating the fact . No, senator. The most notorious example of the crisis you just described is police browder. He could not post bail because he was poor. He was accused of stealing a backpack. He was never brought forward for trial. He ultimately took his life. He committed suicide because of the trauma he experienced at rikers. He was held in solitary confinement for much of his time. Justice barretts record on race and criminal justice matters, and her writing on miranda provide a powerful roadmap into how she would likely handle criminal justice cases that come before the Supreme Court. This is in large part another reason why we oppose her nomination. Chairman, say to the we sit in a country where you are comfortably sitting here right now her children are being tortured and solitary confinement. Blacks are disproportionately stopped by police. Even the hope they find in traffic stops that white people found with drugs with the black people in their stops. You can go through every part of this system, all the way through to sentencing, treatment in prison, perceptions of threat often deeply affected by the summit he gets probation or parole. The collateral consequences if somebody is poor now when they get out of prison the costs are much different than what they face of somebody wealthy comes out of prison. It frustrates me we have a National Shame that our criminal Justice System is not just. We do not have equal justice under the law. We are a nation still engaging in things other countries call torture to people in our prisons. And we do not have a sense of urgency to do something about it and continue to put people on the highest court in the land who are not even familiar with the scholarship around this issue. Thank you. Just a few brief comments bail reform. There is legislation to abolish cash bail. Rand paul is maybe on. Senator harris. Trying to work with senator booker, i find you very knowledgeable. You have seen states that basically abolished bail and drop somebody off in the morning and they are back on the street the afternoon committing violent crimes. You have situation for a young man and for three years receiving a backpack. I get it. There is the other side of the story to the extent we can create a parole system in the federal system, count me in. The federal system does not have parole. The first steps act as a review of the nonviolent offenders. Senator lee, has been good at this. I want to see if we can come up with pilot programs or parole. There is a facility in South Carolina where admin was in for 35 years. He was in his 50s. Every guard said he was here for no reason. Said this guy will kill the first person he meets. I would like to have a system that addresses what youre talking about but does not lead to a catch and release in terms of violent offenders. I welcome that. Every prison i visit, and we have a lot of conversations about faith. I try to visit prisons. Arden i ask if there are people that dont belong. They say absolutely. They say with parole help. Yes. There the first to go to the parole hearings. Thank you, mr. Chairman, calling from new jersey. It was my own fathers volunteer work and Prison Ministry that really shaped my young life. My first visit to our state prisons was in middle school. My dad was going to visit a Bible Study Group and brought a convicted murderer home on parole weekends to our house which shaped my sense of what it means to be willing to take risks for those with the rest of society has given up on. Wasfirst step act graciously recognized by the chairman. It was previously meant to be a first step along a long journey. We have a lot of important work we can and should be doing in addressing the ways in which our criminal Justice System is profoundly unjust. We are months past the point where the people of delaware least expected action on Reform Efforts here legislatively to deal with racial inequality. That should be on our agenda every day. It was a judge for whom i clerked for that took me to a federal prison. She made sure everyone of her clerks went to a federal prison, met with federal prisoners, had an understanding of what the consequences were. I frankly think everyone deserves in this role to have insight into the victims families in the consequences of crime, and also into what incarceration means for things like cash bail and solitary confinement, particularly for young people. Solitaryill on confinement for a number of years. We should work on this. Let me get to questioning the panel. Briefly ist know im the last question are today questioner today. What kind of two things. In speaking to an event about covid recently said people dont die of the disease anymore. Is that accurate . What if any kind of meaningful relief can congress provide that would help your clinic, in help thosehiga and in Public Health respond to this pandemic . Thank you for that question. I can answer the question. No, it is not accurate. People are dying every day. Thousands of americans each day are dying because of covid. There is a lot congress could be doing to help patients. You could potentially be extending unemployment. Giving people cash assistants. People are having trouble paying rent. Difficulty even getting food to eat. I have patients with difficulty affording medications. Are facing reallife challenges and they cant afford to wait for an election. They cant afford for congress to continue with the partisanship we are seeing. They need action now. That is one other main reasons i came today. To ask on behalf of my patients. Specifically giving people access to health care. Anybody who had covidrelated illness should not have to worry about going bankrupt because of that illness. Making sure we protect those people so they dont lose their Health Insurance at any point in the future. Because of preexisting conditions. Those things could be done to help protect my patients. Thank you. It is my hope we will find a path in these last three weeks before the election to actually deliver a meaningful bipartisan package. It should be robust and provide resources, particularly for grassroot medical clinics. I appreciate your advocacy about the health care of children. We have spoken about how the Second Movement<\/a> that would possibly strike down common. Ense gun violence measures other measures that are designed to stop gun violence. Of janeterned because rice, who is still grieving her son. Barton, whoman, was mourning for her brother. Sons who have a hole forr heart further their son ethan. We are a safer state because of the victims and survivors of gun violence whether newtown or Downtown Hartford<\/a> and all across the state, often in communities of color. Every neighborhood, every family, every community is vulnerable to the scourge an epidemic of gun violence. Thate ask you about regionalismlosophy, originalism has applied to the second mimic. Could that lead to striking down those laws that state legislatures and hopefully congress one day will enact to make america safer. Thank you, senator blumenthal. In our analysis of judge merricks record her second judge barretts record, we likely it would be more she would seek to expand an individuals right to obtain and use and she would be invited to likely resist restrictions on purchase of guns. Closely. T her decision wrote, which was authored along with two other which somene in observers said it is in conflict with every other appellate court. Senator,ly concerned, she would put herself on the scale of providing more access and easy access to guns in our country. Thank you very much. You like to turn to described in your testimony of being a survivor of sexual abuse. You state you are the person you are today at 16 years old because you had access to an abortion. Heard mymay have asking judge barrett if she thought, from a legal position, roe v. Wade was correctly decided. Including in cases where pregnancy was the result of sexual abuse. I brought to her the story of a rape victim and survivor and had an abortion. How did you feel knowing that judge barrett simply would not answer the question about whether roe v. Wade and griswold v. Connecticut were correctly decided . Senator, thank you for that question. It is deeply disturbing. It just makes me think no one cared about consent when i was being sexually abused. People deserve the right to consent, autonomy and dignity. We stand against this nomination. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I have a letter for the National Education<\/a> association which represents 3 million educators serving 50 million students. They are urging the senate to focus on a covid19 relief bill and not rush to confirm President Trump<\/a>s nominee. That is not what the American People<\/a> want. I asked for consent to enter this into the record, buster chairman. Thank you mr. Chairman. I have a few questions for ms. Clark. The Supreme Court<\/a>s Shelby County<\/a> decision, the clearance of the voting right act, which requires jurisdictions with a history of voting discrimination to get approval for changes to their voting laws. After Shelby County<\/a>, over a dozen states passed restrictive voting laws. I asked your spirit if Voter Suppression<\/a> or discrimination currently exists. She refused to answer and pointed out the Supreme Court<\/a> did not address section 2 of the Voting Rights<\/a> act, but the Supreme Court<\/a> has recently decided to take up this issue. Provision, section 2 puts the burden on those challenging the voting law to show the Supreme Court<\/a> would result in a denial over abridgment of the right of any citizen to vote. This makes it hard to prevail . Wouldnt you agree . Yes, senator. I completely agree. Section 2 is not a substitute for the important protections. I think everyone should understand what burden shifting really will result in. There has to basically be a casebycase reading of these laws to challenge if the law passed a state actually suppresses the vote. That is a pretty tough burden. Requiredsion basically to show theirons provision did not suppress votes , is that correct . Litigation has been more costly, more time intensive and more i think the Supreme Court<\/a> in making that decision should have predicted that was exactly what was going to happen. They should have predicted a lot of states would begin to pass all kinds of laws that would have the effect of suppressing votes, especially of minorities and blacks. Her cases reviewed on the seventh circuit. I found two of her cases relating to discrimination in the workplace, particularly concerning. The first was eeoc versus autozone. She voted to not rehear a Panel Decision<\/a> that in essence approved a separate but equal arrangement. Where she joined an opinion that effectively approved of age discrimination against job applicants. In a little more depth why the Lawyers Committee<\/a> was concerned about judge barretts record on workers and civil rights . Thank you, senator. In the area of workers rights we examined, judge merrick demonstrated an inclination to with corporations and employers over employees. We are deeply concerned about the eeoc versus autozone case. Judge barrett essentially, along with four other judges, refused to pay federal government request for a full panel review of a case involving an employer, here autozone, which chose to intentionally segregate employees on the basis of race. They assigned employees based on race. They did so flippantly. Found this was not becausesegregation people were paid the same and received benefits. We find this deeply disturbing. We do not need to return to era where there is intentional racial segregation in society. Judge barrett authored a Decision Holding<\/a> that a black Traffic Control<\/a> driver failed to make a case he was fired in retaliation for making complaints of racial bias. Worker wase the subject to racial slurs. His coworkers viewed used the word on multiple occasions. While the judge recognize this as a racial epithet, there was not sufficient basis define he was subject to a hostile work environment. When you look at the sum total of judge barretts record in the title vii context, it raises great concern about her willingness to protect victims of discrimination in the workplace and seems to make clear her orientation to protect the rights of corporations and businesses. Y, shouldnt that have been a violation . Agree, senator, but we looked at her record and it reflected the pattern. The pattern we see across both of these cases indicates a judge who would not be inclined to enforce title vii of the civil rights act, one of our nations most important federal civil rights laws when it comes to protecting workers in the workplace. I have every reason to believe she is somebody who would side with corporations and businesses. That have a Supreme Court<\/a> already is protecting corporate interests over individual rights. Thank you. I want to thank the witnesses it is more i ignored them than anything else. [laughter] i appreciate that. It has been extraordinary to and from all of you frankly crystal moved me with her testimony. I am thankful. I want to thank you for coming in and being around all these people and their hot air. I am mad you brought up my classmate noah feldman. I thought i could make it to the hearing without hearing about my professor, chela mark. I want to focus on ms. Clark if i can. I want to thank you for your really important testimony. I talked about concerns around race. In the middle of one of our largest racial recognize nings, i wonder if you can ground my concern on the actual writings of hers and talk about miranda first. You, senator booker. We are at interesting moment. People are protesting Racial Injustice<\/a> and unconstitutional policing practices. We looked closely at one of her articles where she talked at length about miranda, the miranda doctrine. She describes it as the court choice to over enforce a constitutional norm that she says goes beyond constitutional meaning. She suggested miranda warnings throughout time have led to the exclusion of evidence even when some were freely given a confession was freely given. I am concerned a Justice Barrett<\/a> would mean a court that would be more inclined to chip away at the Constitutional Rights<\/a> of. Hose who are accused of crimes we know our system is disproportionately composed of black people and people of color. This is an area of great concern. The history of africanamericans in the criminal Justice System<\/a> being wrongfully convicted is pretty staggering, even up to recent months. That is correct, senator. Affectsthat racism virtually every stage of the criminal Justice System<\/a> from who gets stopped on the streets to length of sentences, to who gets a death penalty. Those of the kinds of cases that routinely come before the court. In many respects this is a lifeanddeath issue for black people and people of color who are subjected to punishment at the highest levels in our criminal Justice System<\/a>. There is a lot written about this. A lot of studies of help africanamericans in particular churnedle have been into a system forgot this of innocence or facts. Whyre familiar with innocent people plead guilty, correct . We have a criminal Justice System<\/a> that no logger has trials. 90 of our criminal convictions are done by plea bargain. Are you familiar with the example after example, dozens of dozens in my time as mayor of young people caught up in the criminal Justice System<\/a> that plead out just to get out of jail, correct . Yes. We are deeply familiar with the resurgence of debtors prison. And entangle poor people people of color in the criminal Justice System<\/a> because of their poverty. Question. To ask a the first, visited rikers island, the youth lockup, i was stunned. I was already mayor of the city of newark. I was there thinking of visiting people who convicted crimes. I was met with a bunch of teenagers. I asked how long they had been there. Six months, eight months, a year. Them. Ths for one of these were people in for accusationsinor where they were stuck in the criminal Justice System<\/a>. Yesterday, weed have a system that treats you better if you are rich and guilty than if you are poor and innocent. This is not an occasional miscarriage of justice. These go on and thousands of cases in every city in america where you see young people put into solitary confinement which is still legal in most states which psychological professionals call torture. Then the other out of prison after the psychological effects, still not convicted of anything. System. Rife within the basic protections like miranda are the over securing of rights . That is an astonishing lack of knowledge about what actually goes on in our criminal Justice System<\/a> every single day. To sit on the highest court in know about what anybody who works in the criminal justice world i have seen judges break down in tears about having to follow mandatory minimums. I have seen prosecutors come to me and say there has got to be different way. The concern i had about not being familiar with some of these basic studies coming from you know this. I will not name the people in the right, the organizations. Some vilified at this hearing that i found common cause with the correct some of these tragedies. Is anything im saying overstating the fact . No, senator. The most notorious example of the crisis you just described is police browder. He could not post bail because he was poor. He was accused of stealing a backpack. He was never brought forward for trial. He ultimately took his life. He committed suicide because of the trauma he experienced at rikers. He was held in solitary confinement for much of his time. Justice barretts record on race and criminal justice matters, and her writing on miranda provide a powerful roadmap into how she would likely handle criminal justice cases that come before the Supreme Court<\/a>. This is in large part another reason why we oppose her nomination. Chairman, say to the we sit in a country where you are comfortably sitting here right now her children are being tortured and solitary confinement. Blacks are disproportionately stopped by police. Even the hope they find in traffic stops that white people found with drugs with the black people in their stops. You can go through every part of this system, all the way through to sentencing, treatment in prison, perceptions of threat often deeply affected by the summit he gets probation or parole. The collateral consequences if somebody is poor now when they get out of prison the costs are much different than what they face of somebody wealthy comes out of prison. It frustrates me we have a National Shame<\/a> that our criminal Justice System<\/a> is not just. We do not have equal justice under the law. We are a nation still engaging in things other countries call torture to people in our prisons. And we do not have a sense of urgency to do something about it and continue to put people on the highest court in the land who are not even familiar with the scholarship around this issue. Thank you. Just a few brief comments bail reform. There is legislation to abolish cash bail. Rand paul is maybe on. Senator harris. Trying to work with senator booker, i find you very knowledgeable. You have seen states that basically abolished bail and drop somebody off in the morning and they are back on the street the afternoon committing violent crimes. You have situation for a young man and for three years receiving a backpack. I get it. There is the other side of the story to the extent we can create a parole system in the federal system, count me in. The federal system does not have parole. The first steps act as a review of the nonviolent offenders. Senator lee, has been good at this. I want to see if we can come up with pilot programs or parole. There is a facility in South Carolina<\/a> where admin was in for 35 years. He was in his 50s. Every guard said he was here for no reason. Said this guy will kill the first person he meets. I would like to have a system that addresses what youre talking about but does not lead to a catch and release in terms of violent offenders. I welcome that. Every prison i visit, and we have a lot of conversations about faith. I try to visit prisons. Arden i ask if there are people that dont belong. They say absolutely. They say with parole help. Yes. There the first to go to the parole hearings. Thank you, mr. Chairman, calling from new jersey. It was my own fathers volunteer work and Prison Ministry<\/a> that really shaped my young life. My first visit to our state prisons was in middle school. My dad was going to visit a Bible Study Group<\/a> and brought a convicted murderer home on parole weekends to our house which shaped my sense of what it means to be willing to take risks for those with the rest of society has given up on. Wasfirst step act graciously recognized by the chairman. It was previously meant to be a first step along a long journey. We have a lot of important work we can and should be doing in addressing the ways in which our criminal Justice System<\/a> is profoundly unjust. We are months past the point where the people of delaware least expected action on Reform Efforts<\/a> here legislatively to deal with racial inequality. That should be on our agenda every day. It was a judge for whom i clerked for that took me to a federal prison. She made sure everyone of her clerks went to a federal prison, met with federal prisoners, had an understanding of what the consequences were. I frankly think everyone deserves in this role to have insight into the victims families in the consequences of crime, and also into what incarceration means for things like cash bail and solitary confinement, particularly for young people. Solitaryill on confinement for a number of years. We should work on this. Let me get to questioning the panel. Briefly ist know im the last question are today questioner today. What kind of two things. In speaking to an event about covid recently said people dont die of the disease anymore. Is that accurate . What if any kind of meaningful relief can congress provide that would help your clinic, in help thosehiga and in Public Health<\/a> respond to this pandemic . Thank you for that question. I can answer the question. No, it is not accurate. People are dying every day. Thousands of americans each day are dying because of covid. There is a lot congress could be doing to help patients. You could potentially be extending unemployment. Giving people cash assistants. People are having trouble paying rent. Difficulty even getting food to eat. I have patients with difficulty affording medications. Are facing reallife challenges and they cant afford to wait for an election. They cant afford for congress to continue with the partisanship we are seeing. They need action now. That is one other main reasons i came today. To ask on behalf of my patients. Specifically giving people access to health care. Anybody who had covidrelated illness should not have to worry about going bankrupt because of that illness. Making sure we protect those people so they dont lose their Health Insurance<\/a> at any point in the future. Because of preexisting conditions. Those things could be done to help protect my patients. Thank you. It is my hope we will find a path in these last three weeks before the election to actually deliver a meaningful bipartisan package. It should be robust and provide resources, particularly for grassroot medical clinics. I appreciate your advocacy about the health care of children. We have spoken about how the Affordable Care<\/a> act is vital to keeping your children healthy and safe. My colleagues want to repeal and replace the aca. My challenge has been finding the replacement plan. Can you tell me what the replacement plan is for the aca t . Thank you. Can you hear me . Yes, i can. President trump was here in signed anand executive order he said with protect preexisting conditions. Lot moordable care is a re than protections against preexisting conditions exclusion. Signed perve order white House Counsel<\/a> had no legal effect. It was a great idea but i have to tell you, like you, i remain all ears and eager to hear consider anread and effective replacement plan. I know my own senator, senator tillis is he in the chamber today . He is no longer here. Senator tillis put forth what is called a protest act that uses the term preexisting doestions, but in effect not meet the standard we currently have with the Affordable Care<\/a> act. That theust say to American People<\/a> are on pins and needles and feeling very anxious for whatever replacement plan might someday appear so we can understand what the impact is. Im sure you can understand the anxiety that comes with the absence of that. Where it first started to come together, we have been facing a future with threats to the Affordable Care<\/a> act minus a viable replacement. While childrens lives hang in the balance. It has been incredibly difficult and stressful four years and that continues and feels more immediate with each day. One of the things i try to emphasize in talking to people in delaware is the Affordable Care<\/a> is not just protect the 20 million americans together health care through aca exchanges. It doesnt protect 130 million americans who have preexisting conditions, and now 7 million more because of this pandemic. To protects the majority of americans. This is relevant because we were considering a successor to justice ginsburg. It prohibits discrimination against women on the bases of gender. Or charging more because women are women. It literally is protecting the majority of the American People<\/a>. Let me close with two questions if i might from the Lawyers Committee<\/a>. And iff has identified, put up a board yesterday of 120 Supreme Court<\/a> cases decided 54 that i now believe are at risk of reconsideration or reversal if judge merrick is confirmed. One of these judge garrett is t isirmed judge baret confirmed. Racial diversity in admissions at the university of michigan. The Trump Administration<\/a> sued Yale University<\/a> for its efforts to promote racial diversity, a case similar to that. Can youtration expand the impact this case has had for the nation and the consequences if it were overturned . Thank you, senator. There are a number of critical cases in the Supreme Court<\/a>. Highstakesmost cases or cases involving challenges to race conscious admissions policies at colleges and universities across the country. The Justice Department<\/a> recently and to statically suited yell university. Sued yaleingly university. The university of carolina, university of texas at austin. My organization is involved in all three of those cases. They are on the fast track to the Supreme Court<\/a>. Heldupreme court that race can be a number of factors that colleges consider in pulling together their college classes. What is at stake is racial diversity. The principle of racial diversity. I am deeply concerned a Justice Barett<\/a> what happened the precedent firmly andblished in this area result in colleges that are not racially diverse, that locked the door on black students and latino students who are deserving of access and equal opportunity. I am glad you asked this question because it really underscores how highstakes this nomination is for our nation. Important early work in your career on election protections. President trump and members of this committee have repeatedly attacked the validity of mailin voting, even though the president himself had members of his family and troops overseas and diplomats routinely use mailin voting as a way to cast their ballots securely and there is no credible evidence of widespread voter fraud. We have seen efforts by the administration to undermine the proper function of the postal service. The governor of texas blatantly try to get were for voters to submit their ballots in a timely fashion in this upcoming election. Fiveve seen lines between and 10 hours in the state of georgia for those lining up for early voting stations. The president has openly called for voter intimidation. Can you speak to the impact of these impediments on voting . How they differ from the impact of any alleged voter fraud, and how this does or does not align with a long and tragic history in this country of Voter Suppression<\/a> . He certainly may answer the question, but briefly as possible. Yes, chairman. Voter suppression is alive and well across our country. We see it every day in places like texas, georgia, north carolina. States that were covered by section five of the Voting Rights<\/a> act. We know people are struggling amid the pandemic and has been to tear down unconstitutional barriers, which is why judge barretts views matter. Its disturbing to listen to judge barrett expressed an unwillingness to acknowledge voter intimidation is unlawful. Expressed an unwillingness to acknowledge voter discrimination is ongoing and exists. These cases are in the Supreme Court<\/a> pipeline and on the courts docket. Which is why we uphold oppose judge barretts nomination. She will turn the clock back on country. Ghts in our thank you to all of our witnesses. Mr. Chairman, i want to thank you. This has been one of the best Senate Hearings<\/a> i have participated in. Thank you for your fairness and opportunity of going back and worth. It leaves one with a lot of hopes and questions and even some ideas, perhaps Bipartisan Legislation<\/a> that we can put together to make this great country even better. Thank you so much for your leadership. One, that means a lot to me. We have very different views of the judgment whether we should be doing this or not, but having said that, my democratic colleagues, you have challenged the judge and challenged us. I accept those challenges as being sincere and not personal. I dont think anybody across the line crossed the line with the judge trying to demean her as a person. The people on my side, thank you for being involved in telling our side of the story and asking the judge about your concerns. One thing we can tell you is as long as there is senator grassley, there will be a question about ethanol. To senator feinstein, you are a joy to work with. To the staffs, this has been a lot of pressure on both sides. People who set up the room, thinking. To the witnesses who chose to participate today, private citizens, thank you to the police officers. Thank you to my staff who bore the brunt of this. Thank you. Begin. End where we my view of the Affordable Care<\/a> act is different than South Carolina<\/a>s point of view. We are down to one exchange. We started with five and premiums have gone up. Those issues will be decided at the ballot box in the election everywhere. All i can say is voting does matter. I am sorry anybody has to wait in line. We need to deal with that as a nation. Voting participation in South Carolina<\/a> is very strong. Im happy about that. This is a chance to have your say. The stakes are high. Let me just say an election will come. Winners will be declared. We get to start over. The thing i like most about democracy is it is a journey without a destination. Whenever we going to get there . We never actually do. When you are a child you are excited about going. It really is the journey. I dont know how this election is going to come out. I am hopeful for our side. Having said that, 2016 was a curveball in many ways. I dont know what is going to happen. The more people vote, the better. When it is all over in a few weeks. I will just say this ifim around , i will commit myself to starting over. Looking forward, not backward. Wethe judiciary committee, have talked about things that really matter. We have had our differences but we are talking about section 230. I think that is mattering more everyday. The fact we had a unanimous vote to make sure social Media Outlets<\/a> earn their 230 protection when it comes to protecting children against sexually flotation. It is a darn good place to start. A lot of smart people in this committee. Incredibly smart about antitrust. About intellectual property. View, eventee, in my though we had a rough friday toely has the potential engage each other and make america a stronger, safer place. Lee, i dond, senator think anybody likes their job more than you do. I have never seen anybody senator coons, you are in that category that is so enthusiastic about the law and politics. Judge barrett, i have had an severality to witness people apply for the job of being a Supreme Court<\/a> justice. I have never met a more amazing human being in my life. Professor, the struggling young student, and everybody else she has helped. Just your knowledge of the law, your disposition, your character, your rating is wellearned. The hearing regarding amy barrett to become associate justice of the Supreme Court<\/a> is now over. The markup will be october 22. To all who got us here, thank you very much. Talking] the senate to sherry Committee Votes<\/a> next thursday to send judge barretts confirmation to the floor. And then, expecting to begin debate on the nomination, setting up a final confirmation vote in the next week. You can follow the senate live in cspan2. Dr. Anthony fauci talks about the coronavirus pandemic at an event hosted by Johns Hopkins<\/a> university. After that, our campaign 2020 coverage includes former Vice President<\/a> biden talking about Campaign Policy<\/a> at a Campaign Shop<\/a> stop in michigan. And then President Trump<\/a> and a rally in georgia. 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