Posted on 10/14/2020 4:49:41 PM PDT by Rummyfan
The tables have turned. Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trumps Supreme Court nominee, continued to impress Americans on the third day of her confirmation hearing. Even Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who notoriously attacked Barrett for the dogma living loudly within her in 2017, said, Im really impressed.
Barrett also deftly responded to Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), the Democratic nominee for vice president, when she tried to trap the nominee in questions about climate change.
1. Amy Coney Barrett schools Durbin on originalism
2. Amy Coney Barrett impresses Feinstein
3. Amy Coney Barrett evades the Kamala trap
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Not 2...maybe 4 or 5
And it's proof that He loves us.
Wow! You can say a lot with a few periods. She better duck if you get ahold of a semicolon! :)
Mama taught me that some things are best left to the imagination.
Cameltoe really is a stupid, evil, arrogant bitch.
Harris’ shtick is to take a nuanced issue, frame it as a yes-or-no question and, when the witness equivocates, says she will take it as whatever is most damaging to the witness. It is disingenuous at best and outright dishonest at worst.
I am not certain how it would be like being married to her. One one hand, I wouldn't have to worry about "feelings" being the major element of a disagreement. On the other hand, her self discipline would not allow much slovenly conduct on my part.
She slapped Harris around, but she kicked Durbin in the balls!
Bfl
She got her start working on Willie Brown’s staff.
I saw what you just now did right there.
Here is the money shot of the entire hearing so far:
KLOBUCHAR: Is Roe a super-precedent?
BARRETT: How would you define super-precedent?
KLOBUCHAR: I actually might have thought someday Id be sitting in that chair. Im not. Im up here. So Im asking you.
BARRETT: Okay, well, people use super-precedent differently.
KLOBUCHAR: Okay.
BARRETT: The way that its used in the scholarship and the way that I was using it in the article that youre reading from was to define cases that are so well-settled that no political actors and no people seriously push for their overruling. And Im answering a lot of questions about Roe, which I think indicates that Roe doesnt fall in that category. And scholars across the spectrum say that doesnt mean that Roe should be overruled. But descriptively, it does mean that its not a case that everyone has accepted and doesnt call for its overruling. I dont
KLOBUCHAR: So heres whats interesting to me: You said that Brown [v. Board of Education] is ... is a super-precedent. Thats something the Supreme Court has not even said, but you have said that. So if you say that, why wont you say that about Roe v. Wade a case that the courts controlling opinion, in that Planned Parenthood v. Casey case, has described as a super-precedent? Thats what Im trying to figure out.
BARRETT: Well, senator, I can just give you the same answer that I just did. Im using a term in that article that is from the scholarly literature. Its actually one that was developed by scholars who are, you know, certainly not conservative scholars who take a more progressive approach to the Constitution. And again, you know, as Richard Fallon from Harvard said, Roe is not a super-precedent because calls for its overruling have never ceased. But that doesnt mean that Roe should be overruled; it just means that it doesnt fall on the small handful of cases like Marbury v. Madison and Brown v. the Board that no one questions anymore.
As Bongino described it, it was brilliant. Indicates Barrett holds a 40 IQ points or greater advantage over her questioners in general, and Klobuchar in particular.
Klobuchar was trying to bait her into saying something about abortion, and she used the term "super precedent", and...Barrett asked her to define her terms, something Conservatives too often fail to do with Leftists.
Once Barrett made Klobuchar agree to the definition of "Super Precedent" by defining it and getting the dimwit Klobuchar to commit to accept the same definition, it was like baiting a trap and just waiting for Klobuchar to innocently walk right into it.
Klobuchar did just that.
Klobuchar tried to take that definition and force Barrett to admit that, like Brown [v. Board of Education], Roe v. Wade was a "Super Precedent" and couldn't be touched.
Barrett then grabbed the logical club out of Klobuchar's hands (that she had intended to bludgeon Barrett with) and clocked Klobuchar over the head with it by stating that, if it were actually a "Super Precedent" they wouldn't be talking about it.
Heh, the simple fact that they were talking about it proved beyond all question that...it was NOT a "Super Precedent" case and could be reviewed.
She just proved that it was eligible to be overturned. And she never even had to come out and say it. Hahaha...no video for Leftist commercials with her saying "I will consider overturning Roe v. Wade."
She just took that wet, stinking leftist fish, and dropped it on the table in front of her. A "Fish Drop" moment if there ever was one.
Now...I'll be the first to say, I don't know if she baited that trap, or if she simply let the flow of the discussion take it to that point, but...either way...
THAT was impressive.
The dems these last two days are a study in trap questions, gotcha questions, logical leaps, half truths, omissions, slanders, slimes, inferences, propagandas and low-IQ revelations.
(ducks!)
“Dont tell me women arent Gods greatest creation.”
And ACB like most wins all the domestic questions.
You get used to it over time.
The differences in Amy Cony Barrett’s and Kamala Harris’s intellects, style and personas are mind boggling.
The Democrats will wait till Friday to bring out the big surprise witness and Feinstein will be the presenter.
Heh, I get to make all the decisions around the house.
I decide what countries we should intervene in with what weapons, how much of the border wall should be built and how soon, whether there should be tax cuts for every American, and so on.
My wife decides where we invest, how much money we keep in the bank, how much we can spend individually, when we are going to get the house re-carpeted, what medical plan we have, how many cars we will own, where we go on vacation...what we do on vacation...
See, I get to make all the IMPORTANT choices..,:)
Ok I laughed.
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