The Senate Judiciary Committee will hear opening statements today regarding Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Judge Barrett will be introduced by U.S. Senator Todd Young, Indiana; U.S. Senator Michael Braun, Indiana; and Professor Patricia O’Hara from Notre Dame Law School. Anticipated Start Time 9:00am EDT
Day #1 hearing concludes at 2:15pm EDT
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Why do the Democrats have so much time to go on and on, whining without end. Everything is Trump’s fault even the Pandemic. Just vote ACB in and forget about this dog and pony show.
amen!
Yes, Snake Sasse, D.C. is screwing up China Flu, not TRUMP as you cleverly infer. WE SEE YOU SNAKE.
(not watching the hearings but agree that Sasse is 100% SNAKE)
After his initial usual snark against VSG POTUS, he at least moved on with a coherent argument against the antics of the DIMs.
Are you speaking of Bens asse
I am.
I hate that butt hole
Is Sasse trying to redeem himself???? He sure sounds like a Republican right now.
His lesson in the meaning of “civics” is something every American need to hear over and over and our public schools need to rename the grade 12 “American Government” back to “Civics” and then teach IT!
Sasse…I saw few of his signs in the ditches along I-80. Maybe he’s feeling the burn. I still don’t trust him.
I think Senator Sasse sounded more like a conservative American with knowledge of the constitution and history of our country, than sounding like a “Republican.” He is consistent on these views, whatever his views on more controversial subjects. As a Nebraskan I just sent him a “well-done” message.
IMHAO, that’s all you can expect from Sasse. Spartacus just said he’s glad Republican colleagues got the China virus. I’m sure Sasser agrees.
Get off the mask people. Its called tactics and this is not the time for any time of brave show of resistance. The media “super spreader” line of diversion and propaganda has been removed from the public discourse going out over the media air waves. We all know this hearing is about swaying voters.
Mitch has to work this hearing properly as he is NOT guaranteed a quorum of 51 senators on the floor as is required in the constitution. Romney and Murkowsky are guaranteed NO SHOWS if Chuckie Cheese Schumer can get a 3rd Republican (say Collins by promising her a win).
We really only need 48 votes. If the RINO Senators want to play games, I still can’t see them simply voting ‘NO.’ They may abstain to which we just need to overcome the 47 democrat senators.
You miss the who point of a Constitutionally required QUORUM. To even have a vote there have to be 51 senators PRESENT to even conduct vote. Mitch CANNOT hold a vote with 51 being present.
As far as numbers are concerned, if 100% of democrats fail to appear:
60% of 51 = 31 votes
A majority of 51 PRESENT = 26 votes
This is why a QUORUM needs to be avoided if you are Schumer.
Actually, you need 51 Senators present to have a quorum. At that time, you only need a majority of the votes that are present. You can actually win the vote 1-0 if the other 50 Senators vote present.
I said that so try reading first and your 1-0 vote suggestion is just another variation. Feeling self important today???
Not really, just clarifying your point. I read it to mean that you NEED 26 votes to confirm where that is not so. My apologies for making you feel unimportant.
I’m happy they took her younger children out of that hearing. Hopefully they did it before the nasty witch Klobuchar spewed those hateful lies about President Trump.
I think I figured it out. All the democrats got the text, push ObamaCare with everything you have. We can not let Judge Barrett be elected because she does not support abortion and we don’t want that to be our talking point so use ObamaCare.
Blue exactly all the Democrat ads in Texas all say President Trump and the local candidate will repeal obamacare leaving 20 million without healthcare and those with preexisting conditions without health insurance! All lies but little Republican push back. If you listen to the ads everyone will lose their health insurance if President Trump gets reelected!
Yup, that seems to be their strategy to hammer President Trump in his “causing the COVID deaths” and wanting “millions of people to suffer because he will take away the Affordable Care Act just when we really need it”, and ACB is his weapon to do it.
I did not think they would attack ACB directly about religion and they haven’t so far. But it is left hanging out there for pro abortionists to see.
The Republican Senators are slow to counteract as they are still stuck on defending her right to any or no religious views. Though that needs to be said, they need to move on and counteract by how bad the ACA is and the fact that President Trump supports previous condition rules.
Dear Ms Klobuchar ( is that your preffered pronoun? or do you prefer Xi?):
– Do you disawow cannibalism?
– When you ate salad with a fork – was that a dog whistle to all the closet cannibals in our nation – we know they are out there.
She ate it with a comb.
Lulu…hahahaha…I love this place! Need to put hearing on pause since I have to clean up my desk from the coffee that was formerly in my mouth.
I think Ben Sasse is doing such a marvelous job! His presentation is a magnificent tribute to our constitutional system and couldn’t have come at a better time.
Another reminder of the big difference between those that espouse Republican views and those that embrace mob rule, even if, on some grounds, we disagree with former on particular issues. Legislative majorities matter bigly!
Thank you, Senator Sasse! The Nation is in your debt!
You know he’s a NEVER, ever Trumper. Sadly, I will agree to disagree on this one. Ben Sasse is an ASS. BUT I love you donaldthegreat20 😉
It’s called ‘up for reelection’.
Thank you so much. What a beautiful thing to say!
Ben Sasse will vote for Trump.
Who knows what any of these RHINOS due at the election booth — I sadly do not trust him a bit!
HIjacking this into a COVID deflection/protection racket (obamacare)??…………truly sad. Vote people
Sasse:
“The voters don’t have the freedom to fire (vote out) the judges, therefore we should not view judges or encourage the public to view them as politicians, who hide behind their robes. The antidote to judicial activism is originalism. Origiinalism… is the old idea that judges don’t get to make laws, they just apply them. They come to the court with modesty…. of what they’re there to do. An originalist doesn’t think of herself as a super legislator whose opinions will be read by angels from stone tablets in heaven.”
No sense getting outraged at the liberal bloviating, its what they do. All have the same script. Should be no surprise how the leftists will spin this hearing. Makes them look bad in the minds of the average American. Same with ACB’s mask. You may not like it but getting outraged is silly. She is damned if she does, damned if she doesn’t wear it. Again, its all politics, all the time.
Sen. Crap just eloquently called out Democrats in the first part of his statement in the Senate.
I agree w/you. Save all your outrage for our politicians. Meanwhile, i’m looking forward to the headline,
“SEN. CRAPO CALLS OUT DEMOCRATS FOR THEIR CRAP!”
(and you can’t make this crap up)
Mitch and the dirty Republicons are providing this forum to help bludgeon POTUS just like they did in the impeachment hearings. If it was reversed, the Dems would go right to a vote. They would be protecting their President against this slander.
I think the Dems’ jerk remarks are not so much to defeat ACB, although they are certainly going to try even knowing that Mitch has the votes, but to get on record what GOP Judiciary Comuittee members in tight elections are allegedly voting for.
Expect commercials against these senators highlighting their ACB vote to follow.
I think their objective is to campaign against President Trump only.
This is a complete waste of everyone’s time. Just take the vote and move on. No one needs to hear the Senators spew politics for 3 days. Get it done.
Dems spew hatred, Republicans give a much needed lecture on the role of the Supreme Court. They are excellent, they also emphasize Judge Barrett’s qualifications. Non one Dem addressed it, since her credentials are impeccable.
I came in late. Is Harris participating?
She may be virtually attending….let’s see.
She did virtually appear even though it was from a can in her office, down the hall from the hearing.
All these politicians are salesman, never forget that. Especially the senate.
Long settled rights? What about how science has improved, revealed, and grew since “long settle rights”?
Does the nasal camel spew after lunch?
Friday’s marching order: “OK guys, everybody has to show up Monday with TWO photos of people whose lives will be over without socialized healthcare–drive home the fear. Everybody got it?”
I like Josh Hawkeye.
Ditto
GOP should, at some point in these hearings, respond with the names of baptist and methodist charitable organizations (I’d purposely get some names of those for black churches and I’d name the cities/towns in which their congregations reside –perhaps in NC, SC, and Georgia, for instance) and I would pummel those Dems like Harris who try to raise eyebrows over orgs like Knights of Columbus.
We must understand and be able to counter one day a Muslim nominee about his or her belief in the meaning of “jihad.”
A Muslim judge should win the nomination just as any other judge should – for being an originalist.
No muslim judges please.
Who in the hell approved the putting up of those huge photos?
Who the hell pissed in your cornflakes. We get it, you arent happy with ACB, her handlers or her nomination. Take a nap. Get some rest.
This is wonderful and it is happening! Thank HIM for it!
What the hell are you talking about? Those photos were put up by dems to promote the idea Barrett will vote down Obamacare and they are photos of people with pre-existing conditions. Now, go back to bed yourself and maybe you’ll treat people with more respect when you wake up.
Coons put them up. Now they should come down.
Why is anyone dissing any poster here? SD has said “don’t”…
It is the first time anyone has put up pictures at a Senate hearing on a Supreme Court Justice.
Democrats must not have found any relevant photos to use to ruin the reputation or to back up Susan Blassey Ford’s or any other accuser’s allegations when questioning now Justice Kavanaugh.
The Democrat Communist Fascists once again made it clear they are going to overthrow local, state & the Federal governments they don’t already control. Listen to them BECAUSE DEMOCRATS ARE NOT LYING ABOUT OVERTHROWING THE CONSTITUTION, OUR BILL OF RIGHTS & OUR DEMOCRAT REPUBLIC.
I always see those giant photos and think to myself: 1. Those must have cost us over $50 in tax money to print an HD giant picture to display, 2. Do these people submit their pictures into a drawing and if picked, do they get these fictitious stories attached to their pictures? I think these are all made up people to drive a propagandist narrative.
A. M., all the posters of “folks” who have suffered with COVID or without the ACA were put up by Democrat Senators, not Republicans.
So who pissed in your cornflakes?
Board awareness is a wonderful thing before making a move, criticizing, or taking aim.
Ah, time for the war hero from Connycut to spew
Good old “Falsus in Uno, Falsus in Omnibus” Blumenthal from the Kavanaugh hearings. Except when lying about your military service.
And at one point when he turned toward his victim’s photo, DiNang Dick’s hand that he kept on the desk was shaking violently like he has Parkinson’s or something.
But neither DiDang Dick nor Sen. Hrino need fear losing their Ovomitcare coverage since Congress explicitly excluded themselves from the Ovomitcare mandate & has its own superior health insurance, which we the taxpayers pay for.
Hauling out the sick people. Blumenthal has a 10 year old boy for his pander bear moments.
If De Nang Dick gets the China virus, he looks like he’ll have no problem shaking it off!
How did all these anti-Catholic Dems feel about President Kennedy, Teddy, Caroline, and all the other Catholic Kennedys?
The kennedy dem party doesn’t anymore. It’s now the clinton/obama dem party.
Forget the Kennedy angle.
Remind the “Catholic” voters that there are allot of present day democrat leaders and candidates who are Catholic. That means the democrat party just admitted those people are lying when they claim to be a kindred spirit.
Bingo! I’m old enough to remember the controversy over Kennedy’s Catholic beliefs in the 1960 election. My father-in-law was a John Birch proponent so I heard plenty about how Kennedy would be an agent of the Vatican. Yet the current candidate the Dims have put forward, Joe Biden, uses his Catholicism as an asset as he runs for President. What does that say about his beliefs?
I’m here in CT listening to the anaconda Blumenthal. He just makes this all about Obamacare. He doesn’t even understand how it is legally being overturned. He is dreadful scum.
It is amazing the parade of horribles that the Dems have on this committee
The Trump campaign needs a nationwide commercial on the pre-existing issue providing the accurate details. I would have a snippet of the Biden commercial when the young mother saying that if Trump gets elected her son will lose his insurance and then a VO saying this lady has no been lied to by Biden and the Democrats. Then I would have a scroll down list of all GOP actions protecting predicting conditions, starting with Trump’s executive order and a list of all GOP congressional bills that included preexisting conditions, even the ones they filed pre-ACA, with the VO saying how Trump and the GOP are not doing away with preexisting conditions and Biden and the Dems know this. The I would finish with saying if you have to lie to get power, do you deserve the trust you are given? Final shot of Biden having one of his misstatements, showing that Biden doesn’t even know what is going on.
Absolutely agree! I was concerned how this question was handled at the VP debate and believe there may have been an opportunity at the President’s debates to make it very clear that our President signed an Executive Order that pre-existing conditions must be covered and that this is a priority that has been addressed. Kaleigh Mc… tweeted about this today, but this needs to made loud and clear to all voters. Votes we lost in 2018 because of this issue !
Ever notice the Dems on this committee are physically unattractive?
No amount of makeup or plastic can hide the inner ugly.
Washington D.C. is Hollywood for ugly people–politicians are nothing but actors anyways.
Blumenthal, “Today WE should be talking about”
~> Judge Amy Coney Barrett becoming a Supreme Court Justice!
PUTz
What a shameless, classless, lying turd. Trying to turn the table and characterize interpreting the constitutionality of the ACA as “judicial activism”.
Just like this weekend’s frenzy to re-define the meaning of the term “court packing”
How utterly Orwellian.
Speaking of “turd”
Is he trying to start a ‘walk back’ movement?
ACB deserves same fair hearing RBG once received
Yes!
Entitlement really does apply
I am always repulsed when I hear people refer to an empty seat as that which belongs to someone: in this case, “the RBG chair,” the “Kennedy seat,” the “McCain seat” as if the assholes OWN it.
Scott Brown hit paydirt with acknowledgement of this undemocratic attitude years ago.
Blumenthal believes the SCOTUS should support Obamacare because “people want it”. Never mind that it is not Constitutional.. The Dems don’t care about whether something is Constitutional. A preexisting medical condition – that they are convinced will never ever be covered by any plan other than Obamacare – trumps the Constitution. So does a woman’s desire to control her body.
Blumenthal just threw out his own “fact” that Covid-19 will now be a preexisting condition. And only Obamacare will cover it.
And he accuses the Republicans of wanting to “legislate from the bench”. Oy. Now he called Barrett “an extremist ideological judge”. And now he is harping on “keeping your word”. Where is the bolt of lightning that should strike him?
Just turn it down really low and you will feel better all day long, LULU.
WP and the Dims Lapdog Media must recuse themselves from covering the Supreme Court proceedings
How many senators are on this committee?
Too Many!!
abigail stole my reply!
…great minds
Ha ha ha!
Blue-Menthol demands she recuse herself from anything “Trump.” LOL! Blue-Menthol should recuse himself from the senate based on his involvement in the coup.
I wish one of the GOP senators would follow up with “Did Justice Kagan recuse herself from anything ‘Obama’?” Such as Obamacare?
Why is there even a hearing for judge ACB? The judge was vetted 2.5 years ago. There should just be a vote!
Optics. We need to get voters to decide properly not based on accusation that the Republicans are “tyrants.”
All Hype: There are soundbites to be generated and we must all be made to suffer. Therein is the totality of the reason for holding these hearings.
Thom Tillis is a groveling wuss. Unfortunately he is our groveling wuss. We need his vote and it will be for Barrett.
Almost sounded like a threat from Blumenthal that ACB must recuse herself from any Trump election issues. I must be mistaken
Not surprised.
???
Good thing Amy IS a woman. (sigh)
The leftists would be crying “white racist men” this and that.
Ok, I just listened to 2 Dems with Hawley in between and I’m ready to throw my laptop out the window. Blumenthal is horrid as horrid can be, as usual.
What is this Dem theme of the day about the Obamacare issue all about? Are they trying to influence voters at this point or are they trying to influence Barrett to be careful how she votes on the ACA when she sits on the SC?
If one more of the Dems say that pre-existing conditions would be taken away under the Trump administration I am going to scream and will probably scare the daylights out of my neighbors. I cannot listen to them all day, at least the Dems.
Why doesn’t one of the repubs tell the world that pre existing conditions are NOT going to be disregarded under the Trump administration’s healthcare plans. Just one of them say it and cover the repub healthcare proposals to counter this theme being hammered by every Dem. There is a reason they all-the Dems-are doing the lockstep on the ACA.
I’d say both. They still think they can win some votes for Biden IF the media covers this whole hearing as a resurrection of ACA and yes, they do believe they can influence SCOTUS members. AFter all, they do live in DC or surrounding area and where one lives and sends their kids to school, socialize, etc. does have an effect on most people,
It’s aimed at the GOP committee members, as well as GOP senators, who are in tight re-election races. Expect their votes to show up in opposition campaign ads after this hearing.
And their constant panic spewing about ACA. I hope President Trump addresses the health care issue before the election. This is a weak area for the Republicans.
They said they would replace and haven’t clearly articulated a replacement. I saw somewhere where PDJT has issued an executive order mandating the coverage of pre-existing conditions. Would like to hear more from the Republicans about this to counter the Dem BS about you’ll lose your pre existing coverage.
Senator Lee mentioned precisely that (that no one is talking about taking away pre-existing conditions), but the Dems just ignored that and moved on with their talking points because its literally all they have if don’t wish to tick off white women voters.
Our President signed an Executive Order that pre-existing conditions are to be covered. Republicans need to repeat this over and over again! Are they trying to lose this election?
When I ever think of Paul Ryan – who is now controlling things at FOX the Fixer Network – or of John McCain, I blame them for the failure to replace Obamacare with a system that would have reduced costs because of inter-state insurance competition, unquestionably covered pre-existing conditions, etc. It is infuriating!!!
I am only following ACB hearing comments at the CTH because I can’t take the Demoncrats lies, grandstanding and electioneering at the expense of all Americans. McConnell and Graham are making a big mistake, IMHO, allowing this harmful BS to continue !
I agree. She does not need it. She looks like Hannibal Lecter.
On the other hand
no one can read her lips.
I disagree.
It also masks her facial reactions to this spectacle. She is literally a blank response to them. No smirks, smiles or other lapses for the fake news to pounce on. Playing a perfect poker face to the verbal hysteria.
It forces all the attention to the sanctimonious Senators, some of whom are making complete asses of themselves (as usual).
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In the basement Obiden
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Those big photos were part of Coons’s spiel. They should now come down.
I thought Coons’ part about this hearing destroying what “trust” was left among senators.
Sorry, Senator-with-a-Racist-Name, but Harry Reid destroyed all trust when he nuked the filibuster and packed the DC Circuit with Dem judges in newly-created seats. He anticipated challenges to President Hillary’s many new regulations (challenges to federal regulations are usually filed in DC), and wanted to prepare the battlespace.
Mitch warned Reid the Dems would come to regret it. Now there is no trust to call on to delay this hearing, not that trust would have delayed a hearing on a chance for another conservative on SCOTUS.
These Democrat Senators are spewing out their hatred of the President and his administration – and we the people – over our desire to rid the land of Obamacare. They are implying that if the SCOTUS rules against ACA, there will be no replacement legislation to help citizens with health insurance costs.
Republican Senators need to fight this by stating what a real Republican healthcare law would look like….ie. pre-existing conditions, cost controls and transparency in billing, crossing state lines with your healthcare plan, etc…
Somebody better speak up while the fanatic minions of these Democrat Senators are listening today.
ABSOLUTELY – speak up Republicans !!!!!
Ya, the mask is so 2020…….