The Senate Judiciary Committee hears testimony from outside witnesses on the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett – LIVE at 9am ET – Livestream Links Below
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The Senate Judiciary Committee hears testimony from outside witnesses on the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett – LIVE at 9am ET – Livestream Links Below
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I’m still waiting for DiFi to introduce her special witness…Chris Ballsy-Chevrolet.
Is that a 2 door?
A 2-whore, maybe….
Three, one was recently installed.
Is it a cis auto?
A hump back….er….a hatch back?
The Feinstein witness should be a hoot, maybe her driver?
She was hired even before she held up her empty note pad. If republicans were like democrats, today would be full of Biden criminality questions.
ACB is so clean that even Hunter Biden’s drug dealer would vote to confirm her.
It should happen! Read into the record all the information from the hard drive.
This gal is running away with this like Secretariat at the 1973 Belmont Stakes.
This is going to crush McConnell’s spirit, and his paymasters’ spirit, like nothing else. Giving Trump a victory preelection is something he’s desperately trying to avoid.
Yes, she is running away with it. Which is WONDERFUL!
But it is ludicrous to assert that McConnell isnt fully supportive of PDJT and his MAGA approach to changing the judiciary. McConnell, in spite of his many faults and sell-outs over the years has been 100% on judges since his election to the Senate in 1984.
Any claim otherwise is either ignorant or a lie, pure and simple.
Post election, McConnell forced the Bushie Kavanaugh’s name onto Trump’s preelection list, even though Gorsuch’s name was on the original list and the 2 are ostensibly peer judges.
Meaning, Kavanaugh’s name had been specifically excluded by Trump, not surprising as he’s a pure Bushie. McConnell wanted him. Which other judges has McConnell foisted into the mix?
The meaning you are claiming is not necessarily true. President Trump added a bunch of names earlier this year himself to his list. Was her “forced” to? Of course not.
You dont like Kavanaugh because he was first promoted by W. Doesnt make him bad, doesnt make PDJT weak —which is EXACTLY what you are saying when you claim he nominated Kavanaugh against his own wishes.
People, as some point, need to think rather than fear and feel.
Her name was on every list everywhere, including Trump’s INITIAL list preelection. Her name was at the top of Trump’s initial list, and as we see she’s the best candidate we’ve seen in decades. He knew it, but McConnell eschewed her, ’til now and Trump had your boy McConnell over an election year barrel. Imagine if Trump came out against McConnell right now? He’d be toast. That’s the only reason she’s gonna be sitting on that court soon. Your boy McConnell has a gun to his head, and the guy who’s got his finger on the trigger is MORE than willing to pull it, as we know.
Kavanaugh was on nobody’s list, least of all Trump’s. McConnell forced him to add it almost 2 years after Trump was elected. AND he’s a Bushie, ’nuff said. If it was Trump’s “wishes” to have Kavanaugh, he woulda been on his initial list. He wasn’t. Why did his name suddenly appear, 2 years on?
Trump stuck with Kavanaugh when he was brutally attacked by the dems. If he had withdrawn his support, Kavanaugh would’ve been toast.
Of course, Trump’s not stupid. Once he’s committed to the action, he’s not gonna go wobbly. That would be the worst mistake of all. The guy would have had to actually be proven a rapist before he’d withdraw support. The rapist accusations were nonsense and he knew it (but he’s still a Bushie, likely in the Roberts mold).
Not sure what you are implying. SO what? Any majority leader would want to use his influence with the President regarding nominations to the Court. Kavanaugh has been a good judge so far. PDJT and McConnell have been a tremendously effective and powerful team in remaking the judiciary.
You are allowing your dislike of McConnell to color your judgement and to discount the good work he has done in this area.
Remaking the judiciary shouldn’t include pure Bushies who Trump had specifically excluded from his list. Which other judges has McConnell foisted on us and Trump, I’ll ask again?
I’d skip the fake news line about how wonderful your guy is doing. He’s gone against MAGA again and again, INCLUDING on these judicial appointments you’re crowing about.
Stll, better than appointments by Hillary.
Maybe, but Roberts cemented ObamaCare, gave us gay marriage extralegislatively and so much more, so are these Bushies McConnell’s been ramming through REALLY much better?
It’s appears that he has been an obstacle for Trump, he only comes through for the benefit of himself, talking about McConnell, I am.
Another point of agreement between McConnell and President Trump is that President Trump’s admin has been very supportive of Taiwan, and McConnell’s wife is Taiwanese (and is PDJT’s transportation minister, as she was for Bush.)
McConnell supported the TPP, which the communist Chinese warlords relished, and paid him handsomely for. Trump dumped it, ’nuff said about China policy I’d say.
Good ole Mitch helped President Trump every time he could not avoid.
Leave Cocaine Mitch alone! He’s busy working on throwing the Senate over to his good friends across the aisle
Mitch is working hard to support his lie that the “Senate is always in session” so PDJT is the only President prevented from making recess appointments. One person with a gavel banging it every day is “in session” according to liar mcconnell. And not one senator, Dem or Repub, has the integrity to ask for a quorum.
Mcconnell’s clear purpose is to hobble PDJT, forcing him to have to rely on traitors, criminals and other ‘resistance’, and doo all the work he can himself.
Seriously, seditious scum.
Beau Geste: Re: “Senate is always in session”
I have a question for Treepers et al. I was reading The Constitution of the United States (which is in my 1599 Geneva Bible – Patriot’s Edition) and came across this:
Section VI
The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.
My question: Do you think this could be why the Senate has not adjourned during the past nearly 4-yrs under President Trump?
That’s interesting.
IMO, McConnell’s ONE saving grace was his stance that nixed Merrick Garland getting Scalia’s seat, and his (seeming) support for Trump’s SCOTUS nominees, which always puzzled me because of McConnell’s apparent stonewalling of all things MAGA. Do you have any source that provides evidence that Kavanaugh was put on the list by Mitch, and not DJT?
(I’m not doubting you, I’m just dreading the realization we will have 30 years of a McConnell -not Trump- court. But, what you say DOES clear up Mitch’s behavior)
There is only scuttlebutt. McConnell rarely makes the mistake of negotiating in the papers, the one major blunder I ever saw him make was berating the Tea Party and declaring war on them in 2010. You know what he’s doing though, even if he leaves no documents trail. Barrett’s nomination confirms in my mind that he’s the first true Trump pick, as her name was at the top of his preelection list.
Thanks. I never trusted McTurtle, so I was quite surprised when he stonewalled Garland’s appointment. I overlooked the distinct probability that this was merely a skirmish between factions of the Uniparty.
Plus, I didn’t know that Brett K was a “Bushie” but that makes perfect sense. I wish that I had a copy of DJT’s PRE-NOMINATION Judicial short list. It would be interesting to see who was nixed or forced onto it by McConnell (or others)
Do a search and you’ll turn it up, try 2016 Trump Supreme Court List. Gorsuch wasn’t part of the original 11 judge list as I recall, but the scuttlebutt twitterings said Trump really liked the cut of his jib, while Kavanaugh was recognized as a pure Bushie and only got there because McConnell jammed him in there, and Trump had already been weakened by McConnell’s Muh Russia nonsense by late 2017, which Miss Lindsey and Burr et al had fully enabled, so Trump decided to compromise. Plus that idiot Kennedy insisted on a Kavanaugh type apparently, and it may have been a package deal, one squish departs on condition that another squish gets nominated to replace him, we’ll never truly know ’til Trump writes his bio, and he will. Barrett is his first pick off his original preelection list, meaning McConnell’s advise and consent to Trump has basically been to tell him to eff off with his fookin list, ’til now, when Trump has a gun pointed at his up for reelection head. .
Thanks. Found it here (scroll WAY down):
https://ballotpedia.org/Impact_of_the_2016_election_on_the_United_States_Supreme_Court
Gorsuch was on a list combined from the original 11 and another, Kavanaugh and Barrett were not.
albertus magnus, you are so right! I’ve sent e-mails to McConnell on numerous occasions, mostly to chide him for something he should have done but didn’t, or didn’t do but should have. In all my e-mails, I start off by sending him kudos on the judiciary. First, because it’s true, and second, because it’s easier (I think) to take criticism along with deserved credit.
Silly comment about McConnel
This is a legacy issue for him
imho
Love the Secretariat analogy
Big Red was a beast of beauty
Who do you think McConnell and his paymasters want to win this election? Be honest. If they could flip a switch and pick, which candidate would they choose. I’m confident they’d choose the dementia patient every time, as that gets them their way and mode of operation.
And make your prediction mindful that McConnell deliberately threw that 2018 Alabama Senator runoff to Doug Jones, and engaged his machine to mobilize illegal voters to Jones. This in addition to his past years’ walking away from conservative candidates in primaries and general elections, and his public declaration of war against the Tea Party in 2010. Neither this guy nor his paymasters care about anything but what gets them what they’re paying for, voters be damned. He’ll even throw elections if necessary to accomplish that means. Witness the Jones debacle.
I find your comment interesting……..especially because I despise the Turtle and his disdain towards our President!
If McConnell doesn’t get her approved the Rs will stay home in KY and punish him badly and Lindsay in SC. Rs are dumb but not when it hurts their power.
Love then Big Red analogy
Beauty and a Beast just like ACB
Biden’s were exposed, again, yesterday.
Soooo, ACB will pay the price today.
Saw today where ACB was involved in some public forums @ Notre Dame concerning abortion etc which she may not have supplied to Committee.
If they do pursue, like Kavanaugh, she will never forget the harm they will have caused her family, friends and Judiciary.
ha ha ha
Barrett is a Federal Judge already approved by Senate in 2017…in other words, she will be our next Justice…only question is before or after November 3!
45 choose the Top 3 from his list!
So do the Democrats actually attend today? If they don’t, as I said yesterday, just end the fiasco. There’s no requirement to do this and no need if the Democrats won’t even show up or stay seated after they opine for 5 minutes.
Why continue the sham? Fear of nasty comments by the media? Democrats may call you mean names? Those things will hurt your feelings? Get over it and end it.
I agree. (Secretariat). This has been the most stunning nominee I have ever witnessed. Brilliant.
I detest she and especially her family will have to endure the resistant evil we know is coming.
‘Elevator packing’: Kamala crowds into elevator to Skype call instead of live hearing in same building https://bizpacreview.com/2020/10/14/elevator-packing-kamala-crowds-into-elevator-to-skype-call-instead-of-live-hearing-in-same-building-984508
via @BIZPACReview
I thought Kavanaugh was a little too weepy; no b**ls. I think Barrett has king size cast iron b**ls and any assault on her ad hominem would blow up spectacularly in democrat faces as she parries whatever twaddle they produce. They smell defeat. They know the polls are BS. Even “stolen valor” Blumenthal was all Eddy Haskell.
You noticed who drove the family wagon to the airport on nomination day?
Agree. Barrett is much more impressive and confident than Kavanaugh. I still think the Kavanaugh nomination was a requirement from Kennedy in exchange for his retirement.
The Kavanaugh hearing verses the Barret hearing is apples and oranges.
The dems set out to absolutely destroy Kavanaugh, no holds barred. The dems had lawfare, the beach people, Avanate and any accuser they could find hiding under any slimy rock they could turn over.
Don’t soften what they did to Kavanaugh by comparing this hearing to his and saying he was a lesser person because he had a moment of real human emotion brought on by the dems vile indecency.
ABSOLUTELY. It was precisely the “humanness” of Kav that put me 100% in his corner, even though I hadn’t been certain before. His TOTALLY JUSTIFIED emotion was key to everything IMO.
The guy who stood up for himself against the furious malevolent onslaught of the entire media and Democratic Party has “no b**ls”? The guy who fought back when so many others would have just withdrawn. The guy who fought tooth and nail for the truth has “no b**ls”? Your comment is moronic…idiotic. What have you done in your life, guppy? Tell us cheap suit doofus.
SICK comment about Kav right there. He is a HUMAN, that’s all… and that’s a GOOD thing. You want a robot or someone with no emotion on the Court?
The Unflappable Amy Coney Barrett.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/10/14/amy-coney-barrett-stuns-at-third-day-of-hearings-leaving-feinstein-really-impressed-n1052792
The only thing I’ve seen about ACB that disappointed was her response to the request to name the 5 rights guaranteed by the 1A. I only saw a brief video clip of that and want to know what happened? Was that clip edited or incomplete, or did she just have a brief vapor lock? That should have been a slam dunk moment for her.
So another day of some of the worse people in America questioning one of the best ?
Wouldn’t this be a beneficial approach to end the verbal rioting of the commiettee?
Please ask the gruhmm dis-respect enabling, Thief State, coup d’état chairman to state,
“I withdraw every remaining minute of abusive, grandstanding, self-serving questions and free, un-earned publicity.
“We are voting NOW !
“You may speak with your vote.”
October 14, 2020
8:51am
1:36pm
Parliamentary stalls, foot dragging and temper tantrums. I give it about an hour.
We are in THE MIDDLE of a PANDEMIC!!! The Pandemic!! IT IS A PANDEMIC!!!!
Such BS.
Well I really didn’t appreciate the small “joke” at our President’s expense (the “sympathies” Cruz extended to his colleagues about our President and then Durbin’s appreciation of those “sympathies”).
I did, however, appreciate Ted Cruz clarifying the misleading Abe Lincoln statements by (mostly) Kamala Harris and the vile Klobuchar.
Thankfully, Lindsay Graham now rebutting Durbin’s nasty attacks on ACB. Stating he understands the D-Rats are trying to “get back at Trump” (with the nasty attacks) and he understands that is because there is nothing they can say about Judge Barrett!
Scorned Democrats are petty.
DUCK!
Klobuchar is about to throw a binder.
Did you hear the Ted Cruz ? For the most part the involvement of the D’s is to spend their minutes, coming to the room or teleconference, doing their hit piece and they leave, Gross disrespect to ACB and US citizens.
The GOP did NOT “choose” to do this during the middle of an election, Klobuchar!! GOD “chose” for RBG to pass on for a specific purpose!
Obama & Democrats lost the senate of their own making….
Obama who famously said in early 2009
“Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won.”
Well TS to all Democrats..dry your tears, four more years!
Listening to the DIMs rant about ACB not telling them her positions reminds me of Low IQ Creepy SP Joe Biden & HeelsUp Kamala not telling us their positions. EXCEPT, she is not supposed to have POSITIONS. She is supposed to be BLIND.
Joe B and Harris have favored positions just none related to Judicial appointments.
Naughty, naughty.
It’s quite bizarre isn’t it?
Not only Biden/Harris court packing but even the Pelosi bill… they demand votes before showing their hand..
Ya know… the first real question to JoMala was if they’d proffer a Justice Pick List like PTrump did… maybe the court packing issue is a dem-plant to distract from the List question.
Truly astounding… we vote politicians for policy positions, we pray jurists are placed for constitutional justice decisions.. and they’ve completely switched the game.. and somehow we end up playing by their insane rules.
Every one of them: Well why won’t you tell me what I want to hear? 😉
Lindsay Graham refuting Klobuchar’s twisted views now!
Graham declares the D’s have a good chance of taking the WH, what a maroon.
Yeah.. I caught that! WTH? What is going ON with him?
This is an OUTRAGE!
RINO Graham just yapped that “your side (Biden) has a good chance of winning the White House”. Spoken like a true closeted Trump hater.
And Klobuchar injected immediately: “Thank you for saying that.”
Thanks for “validating” those sham polls, Lindsay! ARGH!!!
Just a prime illustration of what we have had to deal with from republicans forever. All too willing to roll over and have their bellies rubbed by their dem overlords.
He wonders why his senate race is tight?
To be fair if I lived in SC I’d hold my nose and vote for him. Just as I did as a Floridian casting a vote for Rubio last time because control of the senate is important. If the R’s didn’t control the senate, Schiff’s impeachment could have turned out differently. At a minimum it would have carried on for months.
For every step forward Graham takes two steps back.
Leahy mumbles it is difficult to understand him
Graham just told Klobuchar that he thought dems have a good chance of winning the election!? WTH Lindsay? How weak can one GOP senator be? Why not say
“Look Senator, I know you don’t like POTUS making this nomination so close to an election, but chances are he will win and it won’t matter anyway.”
The utter GALL of them trying to demand that ACB recuse herself from any election issues that may arise! Sorry, but there are other Conservatives on that Supreme Court, not just ACB who will vote in President Trump’s favor!
As IF those nasty Dems wouldn’t do anything and everything they could if the shoe was on the other foot. Their hypocrisy and the way they try to pretend they wouldn’t so the same or WORSE, is just despicable!
Exactly.
The late Justice Ginsburg trash talked President Trump.
Highly inappropriate. And yet I don’t recall anyone suggesting she recuse herself from any cases regarding the President.
Funny that, eh?
Someone who bears an uncanny resemblance to RBG made an unequivocal statement before the ’16 election that she would move to New Zealand if PDJT won the Presidency. But it couldn’t have been the paragon of virtue and fairness herself, could it?
And who’s going to ask sweet Amy or Winestain why the two on the court who had performed gay weddings didn’t recuse themselves when that issue came before them? Hypocrisy, thy name is democrat!
It’s all about blunting dem plans to cheat the election.
They can’t stand someone doing exactly what they’d do in the same situation Trump is facing. Especially when that someone is not a “member” of their secret club.
Tongue & Cheek by miss Lindsey??
This is all MOOT, anyway. The D-Rats obsessing with the unreal fantasies they harbor. President Trump will win in a landslide without any help from the Supreme Court!!
Your keyboard to His ears! ??
The only way they ‘win’ would be by stealing via the mass mail in ‘unsolicited’ ballots and other nefarious ways.
And I have to admit- it’s concerning, given that the DOJ and other govt agencies have shown us who and what they are.
I missed the start and do not know the motion under consideration.
I came in when Cruz was talking.
Can someone please enlighten me?
Blumenthal motioned that the Senate should buy him a bottle of shampoo.
And a new comb…uh…fork for Klobuchar.
Motion to Delay
Thank you!
Got it.
History and Precedent do NOT matter to them as they clearly keep ignoring history when they keep pushing (as Sen Blumenthal is now saying despite being schooled 30 minutes earlier by Ted Cruz) and insisting on their LIES that “this has never happened in history” (appointing a SCOTUS in an election year!!). SHEESH!
I wish I had a nickel for every time Blumenthal talked about his service in Viet Nam.
“You’re moving ahead with this nomination because you can.”
Yep.
Too bad, so sad. Go buy a lollipop and take a nap.
Stolen valor lecturing us about honesty!
Yes complete hypocrisy from the king of liars
Clearly nothing to do with ACB but the different organized levels of attack on civil liberty.
Blumenthal using CNN and their in-the-tank-election-interference reports of “more information coming out” in order to delay! Hideous!!
Blumenthal claims that during the Merrick Garland nomination the committee promised never to move forward with a nomination during an election year. Not that it matters, but is that true? I would doubt it.
Kennedy is addressing this….
If Republican members of the committee promised that, then that was stupid and they should not have done so. The GOP who promised to change precedent should not have done so, but it doesn’t change the facts about precedent in the Senate.
On one hand, its a broken promise, one would think the democrats would have taken their hats off out respect and jealousy for the decision to break the promise as well as the GOPe being position to break the promise.
Also, the Ms Lindsey should use the tried a true shifting of responsibility excuse, “That was Grassly and not me.” Cue scene from Mel Brooks’ “To Be or Not to Be” with Charles Durning…”shift shift shift that’s all you do…”.
I have one question for the dims; if the parties were reversed (the dims had control of the senate and the WH) and we were a month from an election, would they be nominating and voting for a justice replacement?
With glee.
Sen John Kennedy just shut down Blumenthal and called him out!
“When did I lie about breaking my word to the people of Louisiana??”
Great exchange and slams down Blumenthal to his face about straw man argument.
Did you notice the thumb on Blumenthal’s left hand was shaking?
Blumenthal hands are always shaking, he hides them under the dias/desk. I’ve had the misfortune to have to stand near him at events (only during his election years mind you) thin as a rail, total skeleton.
Yeah, he looks pretty unhealthy.
To address their whining, the Republicans should say , “You all should be grateful we are allowing you to attack and question this nominee, when we could simply bypass you and go straight for the VOTE!”
Harry Reid lied to the world about Romney in the Senate.
His answer was so what, it worked.
Not one dem kicked.
DiFI: “long after out lifetimes end”
let’s hope that milestone is marked soon
How touching! DiFi is concerned about how history will judge them for “rushing” the confirmation.
When did Democrats become so concerned with how history will judge them? Barf.
Especially after their impeachment fiasco and rule changes.
CNN found a second grade classmate of Judge Barrett back in 1980 who asserted that she peeked at his pee pee while he was urinating on a milk crate on the school loading dock.
Is the motion to delay in consideration still?
Yes
Seems like Graham admitted that he promised not to bring an election-year nomination forward but noted that after Kavanaugh he stated that all bets were off with regard to that promise.
I was up late last night. Within the space of one hour, the Dems “Gop and their nominee will take away health care for Americans with pre-existing conditions” ad played three times. Of course, they listed all kinds of common health issues for Americans–heart disease, diabetes, cancer, hoping to get all those people fearful.
I really don’t know just how effective this is but considering their at it again this morning, I think they believe it bears fruit.
I agree with Sean Hannity when he says the Dems always had success with the fear card of “Republicans are going to take away your social security, seniors” as I have known several voters over the years, yes, seniors, who feared that.
The card they’re playing right now could be just as effective.
POTUS has to convince people in his townhall that he’s not going to do that. Unfortunately, a lot of people have already voted.
*they’re at it again*
John Cornyn quoted:
“The groups want blood, the democrats on and off the committee want a real fight.” Now I find myself why Judge Barrett Is such a threat t to them, is it because they’ve become so accustomed when they lose elections and they lose votes in the congress, that they use the courts to bail them out?? …..they’re disappointed because they’ve become accustomed to the Supreme Court being policy makers, being a body that bailed them out…”
Bravo, nailed it!
Coons feelings are hurt. Boo-hoo
Sorry but these so called senators are going to give in to the Dems as long as they agree to not pack the court. PT will lose again. Heck, Lindsey just said that the dems are looking good to win the election. Obama has given them their mission and he will not be out done. Obamacare is his baby, his legacy.
“again”? Clarify please.
My opinion only based on past performance of the republicans. I came to that conclusion after Graham said it looked like the Dems would win the presidency. Obama has (in my opinion) told them to save his obamacare and Roe v Wade. No one has asked Dems what happens when PT wins a 2nd term. He would still get to appoint ACB. Is that the point they call for a civil war? We need to know their answer to this.