Discussion: Barr: 'I Haven't Looked At' Whether 14th Amendment Ensures Birthright Citizenship

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I was thinking, “Could somebody fart in his mouth — please?!?”

Your suggestion sounds pretty nice, as well.

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For someone who wants to be the attorney general , he sure does not know a lot of stuff

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And with the advent of DNA testing, we can do so much!

How many generations to go back to see if there’s an illegal in the family tree, and therefore you never were an American?

What if Mommy cheated on Daddy?

Lots of people are finding out surprising things about their family history in online DNA databases…

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I am convinced there’s either a milk man or postman somewhere in my family tree.

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That was a political answer, based on the crazy right wing Republicans of the moment and their desire to make America white again. Barr knows better, and an AG should be sticking to the law and not trying to appease the base of the president who is appointing him. By itself, this says all you need to know about the current iteration of the Republican party, and how little they care for our institutions and laws if they get in the way of their political wishes.

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You would think that someone who aspires to be the nation’s top law enforcement officer would at least know what the Constitution says. Admittedly, it may be a little more difficult to know what it means without years of study, but how can he expect to take an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States if he doesn’t even know what it says?

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Ummmm… Simply answer is that it’s because it’s patently obvious that he is lying.

People like that, who write 18-page memorandums questioning an investigation that they have no role in, who have spent their entire adult lives around politics, are well aware of everything that happens.

And when the 14th issue came up just before the election, OF COURSE he dusted it off.

A good line of follow-up questioning would have gone something like, “So you never saw any news stories last fall”, and gone from there.

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It’s like the audition scene from A Chorus Line where someone sings

I really need this job, Please God, I need this job, I’ve got to get this job.

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Not to mention Supreme Court precedent.

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Totally believable. In the same way that every SCOTUS nominee in the last 40 years has not once had a single thought about abortion.

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Thanks again to the Bernie Bros and Jill Stein voters who brought us here.

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Have you even read the Constitution? Serious question, have you?

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Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do.

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I don’t need to read the constitution, because I carry one in my pocket copy with me wherever I go, just like my pocket New Testament.

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Thanks again to Wassermann-Schultz and the rest of the team that guaranteed that we’d field the ONLY candidate that could lose to an orangutan!

But stay on topic, please, no need to break our side apart.

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Yes, that’s about right.

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Wowee, and Rs want this guy to be our top law enforcement officer? Good Lord. I said it this morning and it still applies, this guy needs to read the Constitution. This is depressing. He sounds clueless. What a long day listening to this partisan hack. This is the guy that gave Bush the Elder the advice to pardon the whole slew of Iran-Contra criminals. Anybody ask him about that today? I stopped watching after awhile. It was beginning to affect my blood pressure I think.

Hirono however was the best of the questioners today imo.

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They all do. With the format of hearings, it’s more about the Senators than whomever is in front of them. And the strict time limits practically demand that-- it’s all about running the clock for the person in the hot seat.

A much better and entertaining format would be one without that stupid clock, so Senators could ask real and appropriate follow-up questions, and the person in the hot seat would know that they weren’t going to be saved by the 10-minute timeout and switch to the opposing team.

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Saw this at the Guardian:

What the heck does that mean? How do we “artificially” drive up voter turnout? How do we deal with the underlying issue of an informed citizenry? Is this man angling for 14th amendment repeal and poll tests?

He’s Jeff Sessions in an exosuit disguised to look like Wilford Brimley.

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I’m okay with that. Let’s start with a poll test of Social Security and Medicare recipients on how their benefits are funded.

That’ll wipe out half of the Trump supporters right there.

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