Analysis: The confirmation hearing has been transformed into a debating platform, with the senators now using their 30 minutes largely to speechify instead of to ask Judge Amy Coney Barrett questions
The confirmation hearing has been transformed into a debating platform, with the senators now using their 30 minutes largely to speechify instead of to ask Judge Barrett questions.
“I think it speaks volumes that collectively, they have had very few questions for you,” Mr. Cruz notes about Mr. Whitehouse’s remarks, before himself proceeding to ask very few questions of Judge Barrett. Then Mr. Cruz goes on to discuss the First Amendment, a movie critical of Democrat Hillary Clinton, gun control, religious liberty, and a veterans’ memorial, among other topics.One question that Mr. Cruz does ask Judge Barrett—a scholar who has written on topics such as originalism, founding-era laws, and judicial constraint: “What advice would you give to little girls?”
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