As a native Brit who has had to adjust to American spelling, I can confirm that metre is the British spelling.
Who is “we” here?
Strongly concur
Added to that, a life of mere subsistence is not what our forefathers sweat blood to leave to us.
Those questions are positively esoteric compared with the directly pertinent matters not asked about. No competent lawyer in a trial or deposition would have left so many gaping holes. The Senate is merely a school play.
It’s certainly one of the methods employed.
It looked to me like the Bible he was sworn in with. Both are the Revised Standard Version, which is little used today as that translation has now been superseded by the New Revised Standard Version. Both appear quite old, as material items.