Aimee Buccellato, a friend of Amy Coney Barrett, reacts to Barrett's Supreme Court confirmation hearing.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Steve Judge Amy Coney Barrett
vowing to set her personal
beliefs aside when judging cases,
if confirmed to the Supreme
Court
watch this
judges cant just wake up one
day and say I have an agenda, I
like guns, I hate guns, I like
abortion. I hate abortion and
walk in like a royal queen and
impose you know their will on
the world.
Steve all right here to react
is Notre Dame professor and
friend of judge, Barrett Amy
Busaloto
good Morning to you
good Morning, Steve
Steve. She is in law school. You
are in the school of
architecture.
How do you know her?
Well, I met Amy years ago
when I was struggling to find
models for how to juggle
academic life and raising a
young family, and she was a
really steady hand at my back
then, and has been ever since in
those matters.
But I really came to know Amy. As
a mother,
we have children three of my
four children and three of her.
Seven children have been in
classrooms since kindergarten.
Together,
we have done a lot of magical
kindergarten, centers together
and we have sat on a lot of
soccer sidelines.
So I really have been fortunate
to sort of mature as a mother
along somebody, so capable in
those ways as Amy Coney Barrett
and her husband as well
Steve Amy, when you heard that
your friend Amy Coney Barrett,
was up for this job and the last
personal who was up for a job
Brett Kavanaugh, and he was you
know the confirmation hearing
was bruising. Were you were
you worried for your friend
about what she was going to go
through by putting herself and
her family in this position?
Oh sure
sure
I think you know. Amy is
exceptional by any standards,
and we all saw that yesterday.
She is a real person
and she is full of love.
She is full of love for her
family and so of course, we all
sort of braced ourselves, because
this is an extraordinary demand
to or occasion to rise
to, say, especially given judge
Kavanaughs hearings.
Steve, were you amazed by the
fact that Senator Cornyn said
lets see your binders or notes,
and she just held that up piece
of stationery that they had put
in front of her. That just said:
U Dot S Senate
yeah! No,
not surprised at all.
If you know Amy
look
someone like Amy who holds her
principles so steadfastly and
who can speak with such a
clarity of thought about them?
You know she doesnt need
notes.
She knows the law.
She is almost unequaled in her
abilities in that realm.
So I really wasnt surprised
im so glad she got that moment
to show the country and the
world frankly, how very capable
she is
Steve. We are going to see again
today, another round of
questioning.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-17.