Good morning, welcome, judge. Welcome to all my colleagues. It is a long day but i thought a productive day. We have 20 minute rounds and hopefully we can be done in time before dinner tonight and we will plow ahead and have a few breaks along the way. So, a couple observations from yesterday. Theres an opportunity here to thinkinghe nominees to the extent she can share her thoughts without deciding a particular case that comes before her. Senator harris who are respect suggested you were not candid and judge barrett, i could not disagree more. I have been here for a few of these, i have voted for every nominee that has come before the committee. They have one thing in common, all of you are highly qualified, cape will people. I saw that in just a sotomayor and Justice Kagan submitted by president obama. Definitely did not share their legal philosophy, i expected them to be fairly solid votes for the liberal side of the court and generally speaking, they have been, that they have done
Elections and they believe they have the support necessary if the judge confirmed if she is selected berridge would solidify the conservative tilt of americas highest court. E. U. Foreign ministers meeting in luxembourg have agreed to impose sanctions on russia for the poisoning of kremlin critic alexina bundy the german french proposal targets individual suspects is being involved this is news from berlin follow us on twitter and on instagram at news or visit our website w dot com. For. Her name is amy coney bear in just 3 weeks she could be the new judge on the u. S. Supreme court she could determine the future of Affordable Health care and if the president ial election result is contested she could very well decide who the u. S. President will be immediate and incredible power but at what price the credibility of americas highest court is on the law and can the court withstand the pull of partisan politics tonight the jury is still out im bored off in berlin this is the day. I want
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Bird will judge barretts family, welcome. Barrettserrick family, family, welcome. I appreciate everyones cooperation. Will have a hearing that hopefully the country will learn more about judge merrick and the and willdge barrett learn more about the law and maybe the differences in the party. As to the hearing room, i doubt if there is any room in the country given more attention and detail to make sure city of the architect of the capitol working with the attending physician has set up the room in a fashion we can safely do our business. Senator lee is back and has been cleared by your physician. Welcome back. The covid problem in america is real. It is serious, dangerous, and we have to mitigate the risk. I would let every american know that many of you going to work today and have probably been at work today, and hope your employer will take care of your health care needs, but we do have a country that needs to move forward safely. Millions of americans, cops, todaysses, going to wo
Youre going to see democrats frame their questions along the line of political arguments. Democrats are going to focus on the Affordable Care act again, on abortion, all again arguing that she would turn the court to the right. For the nominee herself, judge barrett, she will follow whats called the ginsberg rule as stated by Justice Ginsberg during her 1993 hearings, and really say i cant answer how i would rule on a particular case. What case i might ciriticize frm the past in the Supreme Court because that could lead to bias when i do consider those cases but we do know about her judicial philosophy, and thats what theyre going to be talking about, she sees the law much like her old boss, the conservative justice antonin scalia. The way Justice Scalia ruled on abortion, and other controversial topics, you clerked for scalia and you follow his judicial philosophy. That would a dramatic departure from the way Ruth Bader Ginsburg saw the law. Lets listen in to senator lindsey graham. T