I served on this committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee, when I was in the Senate, only the second black woman elected to the United States Senate after Carol Moseley Braun. And The Senate Judiciary Committee has the power to create rules for its committee that don't have to go to the whole Senate for a vote and worry about filibuster and all of that. We should demand, if we win back the Senate, that the Senate Judiciary Committee have the strength to put in place rules that would include, if a nominee for a … (12:17–12:32)
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