Shes a lawyer too: Trumps Supreme Court pick snaps at Amy Klobuchar
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She’s a lawyer too: Trump’s Supreme Court pick snaps at Amy Klobuchar
By Leah McElrath |
MARCH 21, 2017
During his confirmation hearing, SCOTUS nominee Gorsuch behaved quite differently with one of the female senators than he had with the male ones. People noticed.
Donald Trump’s nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy, Neil Gorsuch, lost his cool under the intensity of Senator Amy Klobuchar’s questioning during the confirmation hearing.
Breaking from his generally overly-polished presentation, Gorsuch appeared visibly irritated, interrupted the Senator, raised his voice, and spoke to her in a remarkably patronizing manner.
Notably, before being elected as the first woman to the U.S. Senate for Minnesota, Klobuchar graduated from Yale, earned a law degree from University of Chicago, and headed the largest prosecutor’s office in her state for eight years.
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Reacting in real time to Gorsuch’s behavior, Twitter was having none of his “mansplaining”:
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It comes as no surprise a nominee who reportedly said employers should ask women if they plan to have children, belonged to and defended a fraternity with a reputation of misogyny and “date-rape,” and has made decisions and comments with sexist overtones, might have a problem with women.
However, Gorsuch’s behavior with Klobuchar was enough of a deviation from his otherwise highly mannered presentation to give one pause.
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