{"id":2431,"date":"2020-11-16T20:43:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T20:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2431"},"modified":"2020-11-16T20:43:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T20:43:30","slug":"amy-coney-barrett-a-local-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2431","title":{"rendered":"Amy Coney Barrett  &#8230;a local perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/amy-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/amy-photo.jpg 900w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/amy-photo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/amy-photo-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/amy-photo-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption>Amy Coney Barrett       &#8230;.Catholic News Agency photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I interviewed a local college law professor for a newspaper article that, in part, dealt with the recent Amy Coney Barrett Confirmation Hearings.  She teaches Research &amp; Writing classes, Legal Problem Solving &amp; Analysis classes, and so on.  She said she was not only ultra-impressed with Ms. Coney Barrett&#8217;s knowledge of legal cases across a broad spectrum, but she was just as impressed at her &#8220;poise&#8221; in dealing with the barrage of questioning.  What&#8217;s more, when this local law professor was asked about the Democrats threat to &#8220;&#8230;pack the court,&#8221; she said that would be fraught with problems.  The most obvious being that each time partisan power shifted on a federal level, the party in power would then be tempted to &#8220;&#8230;pack the court&#8221; some more.  This, of course, could get quickly out of hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I interviewed a local college law professor for a newspaper article that, in part, dealt with the recent Amy Coney Barrett Confirmation Hearings. She teaches Research &amp; Writing classes, Legal Problem Solving &amp; Analysis classes, and so on. She said <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2431\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2433,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions\/2433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}