Sen. @LindseyGrahamSC:
"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 barrier. I've never been more proud of a nominee than I am of you."pic.twitter.com/3rJeAYZQiD
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Sen. Durbin tried to distort Judge Barrett's position on voting rights through her dissent in Kanter v. Barr. Judge Barrett: "It is a distortion of the case to say that I ever said that voting is a second class right...Kanter had nothing to do with the right to vote."pic.twitter.com/gKXdnIlMnb
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Sen.
@tedcruz rips into Obamacare and says the law's "catastrophic failure" to provide affordable health insurance has nothing to do with Judge Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court.pic.twitter.com/B4oeIqD8dPShow this thread -
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@tedcruz: "Many Democratic members of this committee seem to be treating this hearing as a policy hearing...Is it the responsibility of a federal judge to implement policy positions that they might happen to agree with?" Judge Barrett: "That's your job. Not a judge's."pic.twitter.com/oS8T0DWEoBShow this thread -
Sen. Amy Klobuchar tries to lie about Judge Barrett saying she would not recuse herself in the event that the Supreme Court would need to rule on the 2020 Election. Judge Barrett quickly corrected the record: "That isn't what I said."pic.twitter.com/DS555qFw4a
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@BenSasse correct the Left's narrative that the American people oppose Judge Barrett's nomination and confirmation to the Supreme Court: "The public view of your confirmation is overwhelmingly in favor. I think plus 17 in the polling of this morning."pic.twitter.com/ANdabYJVnDShow this thread -
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@HawleyMO: "Is it fair to say that you are an independent woman, and an independent jurist, and an independent professional, and also, by the way, a pretty darn good lawyer, and you'll make up your own mind on the decisions, cases, controversies, that come before you...?"pic.twitter.com/AXoQW0tycXShow this thread -
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@KatiePavlich during the recess: "Democrats always claim that they're pro-women, they want women to succeed in these very high positions, but they continue to question [Judge Barrett] in the vein of Antonin Scalia...as if she believes in only what he believed in."pic.twitter.com/oqDMOBmLk1Show this thread -
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@SenJoniErnst: "What words of encouragement would you like to share with the young women like my daughter...?" Judge Barrett: "Make decisions. Be confident. Know what you want. And go get it."pic.twitter.com/xTvfqUNM7sShow this thread -
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@CoryBooker: "In 2017, there were more possession of marijuana arrests in America than all the violent crime arrests combined. Overwhelmingly and disproportionately African American people." Maybe Sen. Booker should be talking to his colleague Sen.@KamalaHarris about this.pic.twitter.com/CvH5liH30hShow this thread -
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@SenJohnKennedy had some of the best questions we've heard all day: "Do you hate little, warm puppies?"pic.twitter.com/p3NQ3xdmeyShow this thread -
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@SenJohnKennedy's last question for Judge Barrett was a "sincere" one, however.pic.twitter.com/s8c5ZcyoD0Show this thread
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