Amy Connie Barrett, President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, said Tuesday in her confirmation hearing in the US Senate that her religious views would not influence her decisions in court and declined to say whether she believed that historical rulings legalizing abortion and same-sex marriage across the country had been made. Rightly acknowledged.
The Senate Judiciary Committee session also gave Barrett an opportunity to respond to Democratic lawmakers who gathered to oppose her over what they say would be her potential role in undermining and protecting Obama Care's health care law for her. Patients with pre-existing conditions.
President Trump asked the Senate to confirm Barrett, a conservative federal appeals court judge, ahead of the November 3 election in which he seeks a second term.
Barrett, who is facing Senate questioning for the first time, has declined to say whether she will backtrack on any election-related cases that might reach court. She said she would follow standard ineligibility rules that give individual judges the final say. Barrett said that no one in the White House asked her to adhere to how she would be governed.
“It would be a gross violation of judicial independence for me to make any such commitment or for me to be asked about that case,” Barrett told the committee.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett also declined to say whether she would consider moving away from the upcoming Obamacare case, as Democrats have requested. “That’s not a question I can answer in the abstract,” Barrett said.
Republicans have a 53-47 majority in the Senate, which makes Judge Amy Coney Barrett's assertion assured. If confirmed, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, 48, would give the Conservatives a 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court. It is President Trump's third appointment to the Supreme Court.
CTM NEWS
13 October 2020
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