Notre Dame Faculty Sign Open Letter Urging Judge Barrett To Halt Her Nomination | MSNBC

John Duffy, a Notre Dame English Professor of 22 years, joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss an open letter he drafted that was signed by nearly 100 of his colleagues urging Judge Amy Coney Barrett to halt her nomination process. He explains that "We are not asking her to withdraw. We are simply asking her to pause and to let the election play out and then to be guided by its results." Aired on 10/15/2020.
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Notre Dame Faculty Sign Open Letter Urging Judge Barrett To Halt Her Nomination | MSNBC

50 comments

  1. Unfortunately position and status is hard to ignore. Even when doing the right thing is staring you in the face. Some people just want to be in the history books for all the wrong reasons. She seems like a nice enough person, I’m asking her to consider the timing of all of this and to ask herself this question. Did they nominate you because you’re an independent thinker or because you’ll be easy to control ?

    1. BREAKING NEWS: Al Qaeda and ISIS just issued a statement saying their end goal is to END Separation of church and State & build a “Kingdom of God” in the United States.
      No, Wait. My Bad, that was Amy Cooper Barrett.
      She’s NOT a nice person. She’s a RELIGIOUS FANATIC. And none of them are good people.

    2. i ask the same of many black democrat supporters.
      are they independent thinkers or slaves to the democrat’s plantation

  2. If she’s a person of conscience…she wouldn’t want to be used for the ramrodding of the American people

  3. Barret is coming across as wholly partisan with no opinion of her own! Her current mutation is to fit the Trump brief perfectly!
    Repeal ACA, RvW and support his election fraud appeals!

  4. *Totally agree with these professionals’ letter. Current situation is unseemly, & sly even. Judge Barrett SHOULD do as her colleagues suggest!*

    1. @unlisted junk l am sure you can find a good deprogrammer once you get your brain fixed and work on your unfounded hate and rage. You are a very sick puppy.

    2. @Buccaneersliveinsiouxfalls 502 Have you ever been to colleges or Universities? I have. Critical thinking, not blind politics can be found there. Get your GED and then give education a try.

    3. @Brother Love l won’t get you started because you have diarrhea of the mouth an no detectable brain. A vacancy came up during Obama’s presidency. He nominated a middle of the road judge. McConnell unconstitutionally refused to give him a hearing. That was NOT because Obama lost the Senate. It was because Mitch McConnell unconstitutionally denied the nominee even a hearing. Your hatred is unhealthy and much more vitriolic than is healthy. You don’t have to like Obama, but he deserves the same Constitutional rights as anyone else. And unlike Trump, he received a majority of the popular vote as well as the Electoral College vote.

  5. Enough said she knows that she is being a pawn in the GOP game and doesn’t care she’s thinking only about herself!!!

  6. After hearing his points, hes right and I agree, it even makes me feel like “wow, this would be amazing for her and her standing to do the right thing “, dont hear much of that lately!

    1. Touche. If she is a true Christian and a person of principle this is the right thing to do. People will respect her, if she is confirmed under the present clouds her judgeship will always be tainted.

    1. We will not deny she’s a good person, she could wait, Trump nominated her for the job, who knows with what purpose, it’s really up to her to wait, the chair is not going away, she’s a decent human being, she has a conscience, may she chose wisely

  7. Appointing judges should never be a political choice. Judges should be separated from political affiliation.

    1. can you perhaps give more details? Or do we just take your word for it, on the basis of no evidence?

    1. in what way? It seemed that she had to put up with a lot of mansplaining and interruptions that little miss ‘that’s senator Ocasio-Cortez to you’ complained about as being unacceptable very recently. I think ACB did far better than AOC here without playing the crybaby card.

    1. @Sam Erdrich she’s a good person, she might wait it out, but it’s really up to her now, Trump gave her the job, who knows with what intentions, she knows better, she’s not a shady person

  8. Another nail in the coffin of the falsehood that is Christianity. The Lord Jesus would throw this rabble into the mire. You know it.

    1. Tim, I disagree. This is a victory for extreme conservative Christianity. ACB will, with the collusion of her fellow justices, impose radical Christianity on an unwilling nation.
      The American Christian version of the Taliban now has its talons on the throat of all of us..

      God help us.

  9. She’s purely an ideological appointment, and she will never stand down for the sake of democracy. She’s an anti-abortion shill.

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