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crickets

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1. Amy Coney Barrett Knows Exactly What She Did in 2000
Sat Sep 4, 2021, 09:59 PM
Sep 2021
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a34374103/amy-coney-barrett-bush-v-gore/

Anyway, as the delay rolled on, I was musing about the nominee's bizarre insistence that she could express no opinion on anything at all regarding our national elections. On Tuesday, she refused to say definitively that the president*—any president—cannot unilaterally delay an national election. Neither would she say definitively that she feels that the president* should commit to leave office peaceably if he loses in November. And, in a by-play on Wednesday with Senator Amy Klobuchar, she declined to commit to the defense of absentee ballots, but not before having a glitch in her memory every bit as spectacular as the audio glitch that later silenced the committee entirely.

KLOBUCHAR: I want to turn to something we talked about yesterday... You worked on the recount in Florida that was related to the Bush v. Gore case, including on an absentee ballot issue on behalf of the Republican side of that case, is that right?

BARRETT: I did work on Bush v. Gore on behalf of the Republican side. To be fully honest, I can't remember exactly what piece of the case it was.

Oh, come on, Your Honor.

That was the greatest and bloodiest politico-legal brawl since the 1800 presidential election. Working on the Republican side of it was a terrific career move for ambitious conservative lawyers. (How terrific? Two of Barrett's prospective bench mates on the Supreme Court—Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh—were both members of the Bush legal team.) Are we seriously to believe that Barrett doesn't remember what work she did during that historical moment? Apparently, Klobuchar knows what it was.
"Impartial" justice [View all] madamesilverspurs Sep 2021 OP
Amy Coney Barrett Knows Exactly What She Did in 2000 crickets Sep 2021 #1
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