I do think that one upshot of live audio oral arguments is that normal people (like my mom just sitting her listening to these arguments) can see JUST HOW MUCH male justices interrupt women lawyers AND the other women justices.
The differences between how hostile they are to women talking than they are to men, even men they *disagree* with... should be eye opening for people who aren't used to their bullcrap.
Like my mom is just like "WHY DON'T THEY LET HER TALK??" "They let the other guy talk."
Yeah.
Like justices interrupting lawyers is a thing, but it's worse when the lawyer is a woman and OBVIOUSLY SO.
Yeah.
Like justices interrupting lawyers is a thing, but it's worse when the lawyer is a woman and OBVIOUSLY SO.
I'll point out that the Texas man was interrupted for the first time 20 minutes in, by Kagan, and she apologized and got a laugh out of it.
Like Kavanaugh just *wanted* to interrupt... but gave the man that little "buh-buh" verbal indication that he wanted to speak, THEN let the lawyer finish his sentence, AND ONLY THEN did he jump in.
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