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    1. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

      Sahil Kapur Retweeted Sahil Kapur

      Day 3 is underway (please mute this thread if you don't want regular updates!). @LindseyGrahamSC opens by rebutting this remark from @KamalaHarris yesterday accusing Barrett of being less forthcoming than RBG was.https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1316158391472009217 …

      Sahil Kapur added,

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      Kamala Harris tells Barrett that Ginsburg, who she has invoked multiple times today "was far more forthcoming at her hearing about the essential rights of women."
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    2. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

      "Obamacare is on the ballot," Lindsey Graham says, lamenting that Democrats are making the Supreme Court hearing more about ACA than ACB.

      5 replies 10 retweets 38 likes
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      Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

      "The presumption is always in favor of severability," Amy Coney Barrett says, discussing the issue at the heart of the anti-ACA case. "It's a question of your intent." Asked if judges try to preserve a statute to the extent possible, Barrett says: "That is true."

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        2. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          Sahil Kapur Retweeted Julie Tsirkin

          Graham praises Barrett for being the first unashamedly pro-life woman to be nominated to the Supreme Court.https://twitter.com/JulieNBCNews/status/1316366106857213953 …

          Sahil Kapur added,

          Julie TsirkinVerified account @JulieNBCNews
          Quite a welcome from Graham to Barrett: "This hearing, to me, is an opportunity to not punch through a glass ceiling, but a reinforced concrete barrier around conservative women. You're going to shatter that. I have never been more proud of the nominee than I am of you."
          3 replies 3 retweets 19 likes
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        3. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          Amy Coney Barrett on voting laws: "Any specific measures that legislative bodies took to protect the integrity of the ballot box could be subject to litigation, subject to challenge."

          4 replies 10 retweets 26 likes
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        4. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          Dianne Feinstein is up, noting that Amy Coney Barrett sided with the dissent in NFIB that argued the ACA was *not* severable from the individual mandate.

          2 replies 15 retweets 39 likes
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        5. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          Barrett on Obamacare and severability: "If you picture severability being like a jenga game — it's kind of if you pull one out, can you pull it out while it all stands, or if you pull two out, will it still stand?" She doesn't say if she shares Scalia's view on severability.

          2 replies 6 retweets 26 likes
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        6. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          Barrett: "Severability is designed to say, well, would Congress still want the statute to stand even with this provision gone? Would Congress have still passed the same statute without it?" Feinstein after her reply: "Thank you. That's quite a definition. I'm really impressed."

          7 replies 6 retweets 23 likes
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        7. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          Feinstein asks Barrett if she agrees with originalists like Mike Rappaport who say Medicare and Social Security are unconstitutional: https://lawliberty.org/the-unconstitutionality-of-social-security-and-medicare/ … Amy Coney Barrett says she's not familiar with the article and can't weigh in on it.

          21 replies 38 retweets 58 likes
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        8. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          Asked again if she agrees broadly with originalists who think Medicare and Social Security are unconstitutional, Amy Coney Barrett doesn't say. "I can't answer the question in the abstract," she replies, saying such a case could come before her and she hasn't seen the arguments.

          15 replies 51 retweets 88 likes
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        9. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          Dianne Feinstein sounds surprised that Amy Coney Barrett won't say Medicare is constitutional. "It's hard for me to believe that's a real question. The Medicare program is really sacrosanct in this country."

          3 replies 37 retweets 141 likes
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        10. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          Amy Coney Barrett doesn't say if Shelby County (the case that eliminated preclearance under the Voting Rights Act) was rightly decided. "Shelby County has obviously been controversial. It's likely to be re-litigated. It could come up before me on the Court," she says.

          6 replies 18 retweets 48 likes
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        11. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          Amy Coney Barrett won't say if she agrees with Antonin Scalia in 2013 that some voting rights laws reflected a "perpetuation of racial entitlement." She says it's "not something I can opine on" because it's tied into litigation surrounding the Voting Rights Act.

          14 replies 31 retweets 81 likes
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        12. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          Chuck Grassley: "Democrats want to distract from the fact that they don't really care about Obamacare. You heard that since Democrats started their presidential primaries, probably two years ago. They want government-run Medicare For All." "This is all a charade."

          9 replies 6 retweets 21 likes
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        13. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          Sahil Kapur Retweeted Sahil Kapur

          In fact, Democrats fought a primary this year and the guy who opposes Medicare For All won in a landslide.https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1316376960348696579 …

          Sahil Kapur added,

          Sahil KapurVerified account @sahilkapur
          Chuck Grassley: "Democrats want to distract from the fact that they don't really care about Obamacare. You heard that since Democrats started their presidential primaries, probably two years ago. They want government-run Medicare For All." "This is all a charade."
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          3 replies 37 retweets 174 likes
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        14. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          "Dems don't really care about Obamacare" is one of the wildest things I've ever heard covering politics.

          2 replies 44 retweets 189 likes
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        15. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          Amy Coney Barrett says she'll keep an open mind to having cameras in the Supreme Court chamber so Americans can watch oral arguments.

          2 replies 7 retweets 47 likes
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        16. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          Dick Durbin presses Amy Coney Barrett on whether a president can unilaterally deny the right to vote based on things like a person's race. She treads cautiously: "I really can't say anything more than I'm not going to answer hypotheticals." He doesn't look pleased.pic.twitter.com/44kHC8lcgh

          14 replies 65 retweets 150 likes
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        17. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          Unlike yesterday, Sheldon Whitehouse is currently using his question time to ask the nominee questions.

          10 replies 9 retweets 63 likes
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        18. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          Sheldon Whitehouse is making the accurate (and not well understood) point that Supreme Court justices aren't bound by precedent, and can overrule precedent for any reason when a relevant lawsuit comes before them.

          4 replies 34 retweets 148 likes
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        19. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          Here 👇 are more than 200 examples of the U.S. Supreme Court overruling precedent. The only "test" to meet is five justices have to want to do it. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CONAN-2014/pdf/GPO-CONAN-2014-13.pdf …

          1 reply 42 retweets 131 likes
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        20. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          After Ted Cruz faults Democrats for raising boatloads of money while bashing dark money, Sheldon Whitehouse on MSNBC invites Republicans to join his party in supporting stricter campaign finance rules like the DISCLOSE Act.

          3 replies 32 retweets 167 likes
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        21. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          Sahil Kapur Retweeted Sahil Kapur

          Amy Klobuchar tells Barrett the Trump administration's position with the Supreme Court is to throw out the entire ACA. That's accurate. Here is the brief:https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1276354916555075584 …

          Sahil Kapur added,

          Sahil KapurVerified account @sahilkapur
          NEW tonight: Trump administration files a brief asking the Supreme Court to wipe out Obamacare, arguing that the individual mandate is unconstitutional and that the entirety of the law must be struck down with it. https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-840/146406/20200625205555069_19-840bsUnitedStates.pdf …
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        22. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          Klobuchar to Barrett: "You will have the polar opposite judicial philosophy of Justice Ginsburg."

          7 replies 20 retweets 100 likes
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        23. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          Amy Coney Barrett: "I am aware that the president opposes the Affordable Care Act. I am aware that he has criticized the Affordable Care Act."

          5 replies 10 retweets 44 likes
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        24. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          Klobuchar asks Barrett if she's aware of Trump's positions on the ACA. She doesn't give a yes or no, and Klobuchar presses. Barrett: "You're suggesting that I have animus or that I cut a deal with the president. And I was very clear yesterday that that hasn't happened."

          3 replies 12 retweets 42 likes
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        25. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          Amy Coney Barrett gets more defensive than usual when pressed by Klobuchar about what she knew of Trump's positions on the ACA when she wrote publicly to criticize it: "To the extent you're suggesting this was like an open letter to President Trump, it was not."

          11 replies 23 retweets 86 likes
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        26. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          KLOBUCHAR: Are absentee ballots, better known as mail-in ballots, an essential way to vote for millions of Americans right now? BARRETT: That's a matter of policy on which I can't express a view. KLOBUCHAR: Ugh. To me that just feels like a fundamental part of our democracy.

          8 replies 40 retweets 174 likes
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        27. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          Amy Coney Barrett doesn't say if she agrees with Clarence Thomas that the Supreme Court should revisit First Amendment law that makes it hard for public officials to win libel lawsuits. "I can't really express a view on either NYT v. Sullivan or Justice Thomas's critique on it."

          7 replies 8 retweets 43 likes
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        28. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          Barrett won't say if the First Amendment assures a reporter's right to protect a confidential source, or if she agrees that an inability to protect sources makes reporters less likely to obtain information of importance to the public. She says these issues may come to court.

          9 replies 31 retweets 74 likes
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        29. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          Amy Coney Barrett on whether Griswold was correctly decided: "I think Griswold isn't going anywhere unless you plan to pass a law prohibiting couples or all people from using birth control... It seems unthinkable that any legislature would pass such a law."

          19 replies 19 retweets 59 likes
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        30. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          Chris Coons quotes Antonin Scalia, who Barrett has described as a mentor, dissenting in gay rights cases like Lawrence v. Texas and accusing the Court of co-signing a "homosexual agenda" when it said states cannot outlaw consensual sex between two men. From Scalia's dissent:pic.twitter.com/Ns7gVhjLCW

          3 replies 42 retweets 103 likes
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        31. Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 14 Oct 2020

          Amy Coney Barrett is willing to say Brown v. Board of Eduction and Loving v. Virginia were correctly decided. She isn't willing to say the same about Griswold v. Connecticut, Lawrence v. Texas or Obergefell v. Hodges (doesn't say one way or the other on these cases).

          11 replies 73 retweets 179 likes
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