On Sunday night, John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight took on a truly chaotic week. President Trump sweated and bellowed through an unhinged NBC town hall where he voiced his support for the baseless QAnon conspiracy-theory crowd, who allege that Democrats and Hollywood are trafficking and murdering babies. He resumed his COVID superspreader rallies and shared a batshit-insane conspiracy theory that Barack Obama and Joe Biden did […]
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The Supreme Court retains a strong but largely undeserved reputation as a protector of the liberties guaranteed by the Constitution. In fact, there is a long history of right-wing Supreme Court majorities serving as dead hands to enforce reactionary policies favored by political minorities who have lost electoral power, or even wars. Most notoriously, a right-wing court favored the South’s radical, pro-slavery positions before the Civil […]
I kept a little running tab of questions Amy Coney Barrett said she couldn’t possibly answer without compromising her future Supreme Court tenure. I’m sure I missed a lot of them, but here were six: One: Lindsey Graham asked her if there existed a constitutional right to polygamy. She couldn’t say. Two: Pat Leahy asked if a president could self-pardon. Couldn’t touch that one. Three: Amy […]
Maine Senator Susan Collins says she will vote ‘no’ to confirming Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, since it’s too close to the election, while refusing to say anything critical about how Barrett’s originalist judicial philosophy might imperil a woman’s right to choose. Collins is a Republican who supports abortion rights, a brand that has carried her to victory four times, but with Barrett’s confirmation […]
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett fielded questions from 22 senators over two days before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption toggle caption Susan Walsh/AP Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett fielded questions from 22 senators over two days before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Susan Walsh/AP Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, sat for nearly 20 hours of questioning by […]
The malfunctioning mics ensured that the Senate Judiciary Committee fell awkwardly silent at times during the third day of Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing. Outside the room, however, the din of politics surrounding the nomination kept getting louder. With the Senate’s ultimate confirmation of Barrett largely a foregone conclusion, both parties set about making the hearings work for them in the final weeks before the 2020 […]
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld described two Democratic female senators on Wednesday as “mean girls” who came across as “petty” during their questioning of Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett, claiming they are likely “jealous” that Barrett “happens to be smarter and more successful than they are.” During Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary confirmation hearing, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA)—who is also currently […]
Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Del., looks on as Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the third day of her confirmation hearing. tefani Reynolds/Pool/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption tefani Reynolds/Pool/Getty Images Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Del., looks on as Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the third day of her confirmation hearing. […]
On a surreal day of GOP-generated alternate reality, every Senate Democrat tried to get America to awaken out of the Matrix but only one succeeded. “This is not normal,” said Senator Cory Booker, before asking a Supreme Court nominee if she would condemn white supremacy. (Good news: she did.) “This is not normal,” said Amy Klobuchar, before reminding viewers that 7 million Americans have gotten the […]
“This,” began Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), “is not normal right now.” She was the 10th senator to speak on the second day of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett—but the first to state the obvious. The signs were everywhere: the masked members of Barrett’s family sitting behind her and the senators sitting in front of her, flanked by bottles of hand sanitizer, ensured […]
After spending hours swatting away Democratic questions about her personal judicial views, Judge Amy Coney Barrett made a significant admission on Tuesday afternoon: that she did not consider the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion ruling to a settled legal matter, or a “super-precedent,” at the U.S. Supreme Court. While Barrett did not signal that she intends to vote to undo Roe if given the opportunity, she […]
Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign media director Zerlina Maxwell was ridiculed online for seemingly mixing metaphors, and trying to present conservative Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s face mask as a “dystopian” symbol. Maxwell, now an MSNBC contributor, tweeted a picture on Tuesday of Amy Coney Barrett wearing a medical mask at her Senate confirmation hearing on Monday. The commentator also added two screen grabs from the […]
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., gives her opening remarks virtually during Amy Coney Barrett’s Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Monday. Greg Nash/Pool/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Greg Nash/Pool/Getty Images Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., gives her opening remarks virtually during Amy Coney Barrett’s Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Monday. Greg Nash/Pool/Getty Images Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., called on the Senate to hold off on confirming […]
On the first day of Senate hearings over the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, supporters and opponents of the confirmation confront each other in front of the Supreme Court. Tyrone Turner/WAMU hide caption toggle caption Tyrone Turner/WAMU On the first day of Senate hearings over the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, supporters and opponents of the […]
In Amy Coney Barrett’s America, the Supreme Court will take health care away from millions of people during a deadly pandemic. That is inevitable, at least, if you believe what Democrats had to say on the first day of Barrett’s confirmation hearing. Democrats had plenty of visual props to reinforce this point: Photos of people with pre-existing conditions on easels, which had the effect of making […]
Beset by controversy and lagging in the polls, President Donald Trump this week was handed what his allies described as a gift: an opportunity to recede from the national spotlight while his party scored a win that would rearrange the tectonic plates of government. Trump promptly squandered the opportunity. For weeks, operatives from both political parties have picked up on a defining phenomenon of the presidential […]
At first, the opening confirmation hearing for Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court not only sounded like the senators were in different hearing rooms—some were, in fact, due to COVID-19 concerns—but like they occupied different political universes altogether. In their opening remarks on Monday, each Democratic senator on the Senate Judiciary Committee cast the stakes of Barrett’s confirmation as nothing less than the […]
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., speaks Monday during a confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption toggle caption Susan Walsh/AP Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., speaks Monday during a confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. Susan Walsh/AP Republicans condemned what they called inappropriate criticism and questioning about Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s Catholic identity as her confirmation hearing […]
Amy Coney Barrett’s beet pink dress spoke before she did: it looked sensible, practical, and stoically feminine, an image she aims to project. It was a pretty dress, maybe even stylish by DC’s standards. A flat bow rested on her right shoulder, just underneath a string of pearls. The justice picked a very nice outfit for her first confirmation hearing. Too bad it was curated for […]
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is so determined not to know whether or not he is carrying a dangerously contagious disease that he is outright refusing to get tested for it. And yet on Fox & Friends Monday morning, just minutes before the Senate Judiciary Committee chair was set to begin the hearings to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court, Graham insisted that those […]
As Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing kicks off, the Trump-nominated judge has vowed to leave politics out of the law. The hearing itself, however, promises to be a hyper-partisan battle. The Senate Judiciary Committee meets on Monday to get the ball rolling on Coney Barrett’s nomination process. In her opening remarks, Coney Barrett promised to interpret the law “as written, not as the […]
Sen. Michael Lee, R-Utah, speaks during the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Monday. Kevin Dietsch/Pool/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin Dietsch/Pool/Getty Images Sen. Michael Lee, R-Utah, speaks during the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Monday. Kevin Dietsch/Pool/Getty Images Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee, who tested positive for coronavirus following a White House event for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, returned to the […]
Judge Amy Coney Barrett, pictured at the White House on Sept. 26, is facing the Senate Judiciary Committee this week for her Supreme Court confirmation hearing. Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images Judge Amy Coney Barrett, pictured at the White House on Sept. 26, is facing the Senate Judiciary Committee this week for her Supreme Court confirmation hearing. […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/0c/1080746063_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_a64956b47346e7f8e248d93f59a5b426.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Aleksandra Serebriakova. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202010121080746109-what-when–where-amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court-confirmation-hearing-to-kick-off-in-us-senate/ Judge Amy Coney Barrett faced a severe grilling from the US Senate in 2017 when she was nominated by President Donald Trump to the Seventh Circuit of US Court of Appeals. Now she has to undergo no-less-hostile questioning from Democratic and Republican lawmakers in order to assume the Supreme Court seat of late justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. […]
When Republicans committed to filling the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the U.S. Supreme Court before the November election, they vowed to get it done no matter what came in their way. With hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee set to begin on Monday, just three weeks after Ginsburg’s death, it’s clear that Republicans didn’t anticipate everything that would get in their way. And […]
Stopping Mitch McConnell from his latest SCOTUS power grab will take an act of providence even with three GOP senators sidelined by COVID-19 and Senate rules requiring an in-person vote to advance the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett and then confirm her before the election. There is nothing McConnell won’t do to get Barrett on the Supreme Court. If senators infected with COVID can’t be in […]
Judge Amy Coney Barrett, pictured on Capitol Hill on Oct. 1, is participating in her Supreme Court confirmation hearings this week. Graeme Jennings/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Graeme Jennings/Pool/AFP via Getty Images Judge Amy Coney Barrett, pictured on Capitol Hill on Oct. 1, is participating in her Supreme Court confirmation hearings this week. Graeme Jennings/Pool/AFP via Getty Images Judge Amy Coney Barrett says […]
The Senate Judiciary Committee begins confirmation hearings this week for Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP hide caption toggle caption Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP The Senate Judiciary Committee begins confirmation hearings this week for Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP The Senate Judiciary Committee begins confirmation hearings on Monday for Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s pick to replace Justice Ruth Bader […]
Dear Judge Barrett, Everyone who knows you says that you are a person of principle, conscience, and strong moral character. Having read much of your writing, I am inclined to agree with them. I therefore urge you to reflect on the profound moral questions that your judicial nomination process raises. I believe that if you do so, you will make the painful but necessary decision to […]
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett signed a letter in 2006 that included a call for the end of Roe v. Wade, denouncing the seminal court decision that provided a legal right to abortion as “barbaric.” The letter came in the form of an advertisement from the anti-choice group St Joseph County Right to Life which was based in South Bend, Indiana. “The Supreme Court’s 1973 […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US nationals are divided on whether the Senate should support President Donald Trump’s nomination of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a fresh poll revealed. On Saturday, Trump nominated Barrett to replace late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. According to a Morning Consult/Politico poll, 37 percent of respondents said the Senate should vote to confirm Barrett to fill Ginsburg’s seat, […]
Amy Coney Barrett, the smart young nominee, accompanied by her young family (including seven children—two of whom were adopted from Haiti), entered the fray today. Noting the number of justices on the Supreme Court, she joked: “I’m used to being in a group of nine—my family.” It was a beautiful scene in the Rose Garden. The flags were flying—God knows there were plenty of flags—but, more […]
On Sunday night, John Oliver returned from a brief Emmys-timed break to the Last Week Tonight desk. And the Emmy winner began by addressing the news of President Trump nominating Amy Coney Barrett to replace the late, great Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. Barrett, a disciple of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, is anti-LGBT, anti-reproductive rights, and anti-immigrant. She belongs to a fringe Charismatic […]