Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg criticizes how Judge Brett Kavanaugh was treated during his SCOTUS confirmation hearings. Discussing the modern Supreme Court confirmation process, Ginsburg called the hearings a “highly partisan show” and "wrong" while speaking at the George Washington University Law School on 9/12/18. Be sure to like, subscribe, and comment below to share your thoughts on the video.
so looking ahead a little bit last week
we saw the Senate hold confirmation
hearings for a nominee to your court
many observers have said that the
process today looks nothing like your
confirmation hearing 25 years ago
hmm President Clinton nominated you
in June of 1993 and you were confirmed
by the Senate
two months later by a vote of 96 to 3 I
might add that the National Asian
Pacific American Bar Association was
pleased to support your nomination
how would you compare the process that
you went through with what's going on
today in that process the way it was was
right the way it is is wrong
okay yeah it was via in 93 and it was
truly bipartisan partisan the vote on my
confirmation was 96 to 3 even though I
had spent about 10 years of my life a
litigating cases under the auspices of
the ASEAN of the board at a cou and I
was on the AC that you've ordered one of
their general counsel my white house
handlers asked me questions about my
ACLU affiliation they were very nervous
about it and I said we get forget it
just forget it there's nothing you can
do that will lead me to bad-mouth the
ACLU and not a single question no Sarah
ask me any question about that
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and
it was the same for Justice Breyer who
was nominated year later he hadn't in
the nineties the numbers or think of
Justice Scalia who is certainly a known
character and what was it 1986 I mean he
had been a law professor written many
things he was he had been on the DC
Circuit and so vote was unanimous
every day a Democrat and every
Republican voted for him but that's the
way it should be
it's instead of what has become a highly
partisan show the Republicans move in
lockstep so do Democrats
I wish I could wave a magic wand and
he'll have it go back to the way
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the way was
you
