Youre going to see democrats frame their questions along the line of political arguments. Democrats are going to focus on the Affordable Care act again, on abortion, all again arguing that she would turn the court to the right. For the nominee herself, judge barrett, she will follow whats called the ginsberg rule as stated by Justice Ginsberg during her 1993 hearings, and really say i cant answer how i would rule on a particular case. What case i might ciriticize frm the past in the Supreme Court because that could lead to bias when i do consider those cases but we do know about her judicial philosophy, and thats what theyre going to be talking about, she sees the law much like her old boss, the conservative justice antonin scalia. The way Justice Scalia ruled on abortion, and other controversial topics, you clerked for scalia and you follow his judicial philosophy. That would a dramatic departure from the way Ruth Bader Ginsburg saw the law. Lets listen in to senator lindsey graham. T
Of their choice, including abortion, Voting Rights, the Affordable Care act, and religious liberty. [gavel banging] good morning, everyone. Welcome back. Judge, thank you. A good day yesterday. Your family did great. Cleanup well. You look good. The game plan for today is to do our first round of 30 minute questioning. Each senator will have 30 minutes to interact with judge barrett and then we will follow up with a second round of 20 minutes. We will not get it done today, but we should get through the first 30 minutes and then come back wednesday and finish up and then we will go about our business. I will make sure i stay within 30 minutes and if i can shorten it, i will. Let us get to it. You can start the clock. You can relax a bit, judge, and take your mask off. Yesterday, we had a lot of discussion about Affordable Health care. What i am going to try to do briefly this morning is demonstrate the difference between politics and judging. All of my colleagues on the other side had
In my mind im not thinking i was shot because why would the officer shoot me if im not posing any type of threat to him and im actually leaving . Reporter hers is not a unique or isolated incident. I didnt realize how big of a deal it was until there was, like, surgeons around me. Reporter linda toronto is a freelance journalist sent to cover the George Floyd Protests in minneapolis. Shes a veteran of this kind of reporting. Hands up. Dont shoot. Reporter she was in ferguson, missouri back in 2014 after another police killing. This one of michael brown. Theres a space where the protesters are gathered in a group and police are gathered in their line, and the people who are in between in that space are going to be media, and thats how you get the understanding of whats going on, is you stand and you watch both sides. Reporter thats what she was doing in minneapolis that night. This is the last photo she took, what appears to show an officer aiming directly at her. I think that not shoot
Linked to Nursing Homes after a lull in indications in june, the virus is again surging through these facilities. David begnau has the story from hardhit miami. The state of flea continues to lead in the wrong direction when it comes to the number of people dying from the coronavirus. Yesterday florida set another record for the number of deaths reported in a 24hour period 277. When you talk about Nursing Homes, its as bad as anywhere else. There are nearly 700 Nursing Homes in this state. We wanted to begin this morning with a story out of idaho where a woman said her elderly mom was infected with coronavirus inside the nursing home and she didnt find out until right before her mother died. We dont know when my mom go sick. She said she had no idea her 90yearold mother was receiving end of life care until two days before she died at her urs boise, idaho, nursing hoping. One of her aides called me on my cell phone from her private cell phone and wanted me to be able to talk to my mom.
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