{"id":34458,"date":"2020-11-04T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T04:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=34458"},"modified":"2020-11-04T00:00:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T04:00:27","slug":"pelosi-goes-off-the-rails-again-by-declaring-senate-confirmed-scotus-justice-barrett-illegitimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=34458","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Goes Off the Rails Again by Declaring Senate-Confirmed SCOTUS Justice Barrett &#8216;Illegitimate&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Pelosi calls Amy Coney Barrett an \u2018illegitimate Supreme Court Justice\u2019<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34459\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34459\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34459\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5fa1f7622030274ebd36bb0a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5fa1f7622030274ebd36bb0a.jpg 768w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5fa1f7622030274ebd36bb0a-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-34459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 REUTERS\/Carlos Barria\/File Photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>Despite Barett being sworn in a week ago, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) has declared her \u201cillegitimate\u201d on election day, provoking outrage from conservatives.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe president is installing an illegitimate Supreme Court justice just one week before the election, after 60 million Americans have voted,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Pelosi said on Tuesday, claiming Coney Barrett will\u00a0<em>\u201cdismantle\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi added that the process to confirm Coney Barret is the\u00a0<em>\u201cundoing of checks and balances.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Barrett was confirmed to the court by a Senate vote of 52-48, with Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) breaking from her party to vote against the confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Republicans insisting that the confirmation process has been completely legal and within the powers of the president and Senate, Democrats have argued the process should have been delayed until a new president is elected. With three Supreme Court judges appointed by Trump at this point and six appointed by Republican presidents, liberals have argued there could be a conservative bias on the court.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThat&#8217;s completely false and undermines our institutions,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0reporter David French\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidAFrench\/status\/1323735377883090944\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a>\u00a0in response to Pelosi.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNo, she isn\u2019t. And guess what? She\u2019s on there for life,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Megyn Kelly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/megynkelly\/status\/1323713011505369089\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1323750715680989184&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F505459-pelosi-amy-coney-barrett-illegitimate%2F&amp;siteScreenName=RT_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1323750715680989184\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1323698335077830664&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F505459-pelosi-amy-coney-barrett-illegitimate%2F&amp;siteScreenName=RT_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1323698335077830664\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-2&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1323683199810179077&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F505459-pelosi-amy-coney-barrett-illegitimate%2F&amp;siteScreenName=RT_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1323683199810179077\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pelosi has suggested she could be in favor of court packing, citing population growth as a reason to look at the controversial idea.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn 1876 there were nine justices on the court. Our population has grown enormously since then,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0she recently told MSNBC.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cShould we expand the court?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0she added.\u00a0<em>\u201cWell let\u2019s take a look and see.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Continue reading at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/505459-pelosi-amy-coney-barrett-illegitimate\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/505459-pelosi-amy-coney-barrett-illegitimate\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pelosi calls Amy Coney Barrett an \u2018illegitimate Supreme Court Justice\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}