Barrett refuses to get into what Trump has or hasn't said, but gives an eloquent defense of the vital importance of a peaceful transfer of power in the American system - pointedly including the acceptance of defeats.
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Unsurprisingly, Barrett won't wade into the (long-disputed, never resolved) legal question of what would happen if a president tried to pardon himself.
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Booker asks her to criticize Trump for saying the Justices should do the right thing.
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Suffering fools gladly gets progressively harder as the afternoon wears on, but she's doing her best.pic.twitter.com/xdYjr8nnq1
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Booker is trying to play a skip-a-step thing on racial disparities where he's asking Barrett if she's heard of a study and thus agrees that the study's findings are true, or if she denies that such a study exists. Actually, studies show many things; sometimes they go both ways.
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Barrett now patiently explaining to Booker that he's missing the crucial facts of the case he's asking about.
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When the law students didn't do all the reading and you're the one who wrote itpic.twitter.com/IE5xqMt9hK
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