“My experience with the Blackstone program at which I spoke was a wonderful one. It gathers the best and brightest Christian law students from around the country, and as you said, I gave a one-hour lecture on originalism. I didn’t read all of the material that the students were given to read. Nothing about any of my interactions with anyone involved in the Blackstone program were ever indicative of any kind of discrimination on the basis of anything.”–Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, denying that she knew the Blackstone Legal Fellowship Program of the Alliance Defending Freedom, a group she’d lectured to on five occasions, had led efforts to recriminalize homosexuality. The Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled the ADF a hate group over its activities, including filing a 2003 legal briefs to keep anti-gay sex laws legal in the Lawrence v. Texas Supreme Court case. Furthermore, the group has equated homosexuality to pedophilia, endorsed conversion therapy, defended forced sterilization of transgender people and opposed discrimination protections for LGBTQ people in the USA and abroad.
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Amy Coney Barrett says she didn’t know one of the most homophobic groups in the world was homophobic
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Josh447
This broad obviously doesn’t think research is important. Ignorant uninformed judges who sleep at the wheel can find themselves in a ditch. This one is already eating dirt and she hasn’t even been confirmed yet.
Dymension
Oh, she’s not ignorant. She’s knows exactly what she’s doing feigning ignorance.
Rock Star
Look she is going to be approved by the republican senate. When we take over in January the next senate can shut her up with adding a few new actual humans as Supremes to nullify her shit.
It’s a whole new ballgame after the election. Anything they “undo” can be fixed when the dems are in power. We just have to all vote. This is the end of the repug-lican party and they know it.
It’s their last hurrah. They used their majority unfairly and lied to the American people repeatedly about almost everything. McConnell and Lindsey are done.
Trump is the one who is going to prison, not Hillary.
WashDrySpin
Honestly with the Senate having all the votes that they need this confirmation hearing is nothing but a big middle finger to any and all what they deem liberal or progressive causes in America.
The GOP has the votes and they don’t care because she will be there for 30 years. Amy is doing and saying exactly what they want her to do and say in order to elicit fear because there is no stopping them!
The fear is real because those people couldn’t get their head around voting for Clinton and here we are!
I do not at all feel sorry for the Democrats. There is blame to assign to RBG here. Someone who is so old with cancer in remission, should have retired when Obama was elected for a second term to retain that seat for Democrats. Nobody is that irreplaceable. Instead RBG has allowed the Republicans to now undo her life’s accomplishments.
Justice Kennedy was wiser. He did not play Russian Roulette with death.
Kangol2
Although President Obama met with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, he could not get her to retire. He respected her too much to try force her to retire. Remember, he also could not force the Senate Republicans even to give his nominee Merrick Garland a hearing. But even if he had tried to find someone to press RBG, she would not have gone along with this. The Democrats in a tough spot, as is the entire country now, because this deeply unpopular president lucked out with three picks, and because Harry Reid changed the judicial voting rules to stop the GOP, then in the minority, from holding up President Obama’s picks (sometimes for months on end, just to be spiteful), the Democrats have no arrows left in their quiver to stop this pick, though they could use procedural tricks to slow things down. Schumer seems incapable of doing much of that, though.
Fname Optional Lname
Rancid evil horrible see you next tuesday! Of course she’s getting in, there is no way to stop it now but everyone has to refuse to put up with her acting all innocent when she knows exactly why she is there and what her mission is! She belongs to that cult and adheres to strict guidelines – especially one that mandates women must follow the commands from their men. She is doing as she was told and will take way rights and healthcare from many, many American’s as a result. For someone who professes to be a practicing Catholic, she sure enough is working hard to earn her place in hell!
Max
it’s so easy to see when they feign they didn’t know. she knew. that’s just the GOP default answer when caught.
Jason
Just because the SPLC labels something a “hate group” doesn’t make it so. They label EVERYTHING that isn’t from leftist ideology as “hate”.