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Ha. Barrett stumbled on a question, which I believe involved the First Amendment? (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Oct 2020 OP
Who questioned her? JustAnotherGen Oct 2020 #1
Sasse. I think it was supposed to be a softball question. Baitball Blogger Oct 2020 #2
That was a fucking 3rd or 4th Grade question. I have to ask my kids to verify. TheBlackAdder Oct 2020 #12
She could not remember ... Whiskeytide Oct 2020 #3
She missed two, didn't she? Baitball Blogger Oct 2020 #4
They said protest. But the text preserves ... Whiskeytide Oct 2020 #5
Yes. I thought it was assembly and protest. That's what I heard. Baitball Blogger Oct 2020 #6
Here's a funny statement I just heard by Josh Hartley Maraya1969 Oct 2020 #7
Hawley is too young to remember Bork hearings RANDYWILDMAN Oct 2020 #11
This is pretty bad for someone aspiring to sit on DeminPennswoods Oct 2020 #8
Yup. Baitball Blogger Oct 2020 #9
The Handmaid's Fail Blue Owl Oct 2020 #10

TheBlackAdder

(29,981 posts)
12. That was a fucking 3rd or 4th Grade question. I have to ask my kids to verify.
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 03:29 PM
Oct 2020

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I asked them now, after learning this 15 years ago or more. And they all got it right.

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Whiskeytide

(4,658 posts)
3. She could not remember ...
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 01:13 PM
Oct 2020

... the right of the people “to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Republicans don’t like that one.

Baitball Blogger

(52,506 posts)
4. She missed two, didn't she?
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 01:16 PM
Oct 2020

I'll correct protest to petition the government, though I heard protest.

Whiskeytide

(4,658 posts)
5. They said protest. But the text preserves ...
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 01:35 PM
Oct 2020

... the rights to religion, speech, free press, assembly and petition for redress.

I think she just missed one. But I’m working with it on in the background so I could have missed the specifics. Perhaps it was assembly she missed???

Maraya1969

(23,515 posts)
7. Here's a funny statement I just heard by Josh Hartley
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 01:43 PM
Oct 2020

.............Josh Hawley

"What we've seen here today is an attempted Borking of Judge Amy Barrett"


Sorry but my grade school self is still laughing.

RANDYWILDMAN

(3,168 posts)
11. Hawley is too young to remember Bork hearings
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 03:23 PM
Oct 2020

unless he watched c-span at 8 years old.

What a lightweight that guy is. Thanks 50 percent of the Voters of Missouri

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