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13 Oct, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Amy Coney Barrett confirmation hearing Day 2 politi.co/2GYoDfF pscp.tv/w/clRKuDFvTmps…
President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett repeatedly declined to answer questions about her views or abortion and Obamacare, frustrating Democrats at the beginning of the second day of her confirmation hearings politico.com/news/2020/10/1…
Barrett also refused to say whether she agrees with her mentor, Justice Antonin Scalia, that Roe v. Wade — the landmark 1973 abortion case — was wrongly decided, noting that there are ongoing cases related to abortion laws politi.co/3lIAL3v
“If I express a view on a precedent one way or another … it signals to litigants that I may tilt one way or another on a pending case,” Barrett told the panel politi.co/3lIAL3v
Barrett says she did not make any “pre-commitments” to the president on specific issues because such actions would “undermine judicial independence” politi.co/3lIAL3v

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