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In one exchange about ethics, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse informed Barrett that Supreme Court justices have fewer disclosure requirements about stock trades and travel paid for by outside groups, as compared to other federal judges and members to Congress. As she did Tuesday, Barrett spent most of the day Wednesday parrying senators’ questions rather than answering them, but in her second day being grilled she was feistier in her responses to Democrats seeking to put her on the spot.
For a second day, Democrats pressed Barrett — without success — to share her views on a key, 55-year-old precedent critical to the Supreme Court’s privacy jurisprudence and to the legal underpinnings for abortion rights. Democrats said that Barrett’s refusal to discuss the case was at odds with the approach of a string of nominees in recent decades including Justices Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Elena Kagan, as well as Chief Justice John Roberts.
“I couldn’t disagree with you more. I thought she was the most forthcoming of anybody I’ve seen,” Graham said. “I thought she really did explain what makes her tick as a judge. I don’t see how you could get much more out of her — appropriately.”With the Democrats’ nearly relentless focus on the Affordable Care Act, some other critical matters the Supreme Court could take up in the coming years got short shrift.
As she discussed that period, Barrett alluded to the fact that the Supreme Court’s resistance to those moves led a frustrated President Franklin Roosevelt to propose expanding the number of justices. That threat, which critics dubbed “court-packing,” seems to have prompted a retreat by the court in 1937 that cleared the way for federal wage, hour and worker-safety rules.
This is what's called a danger sign if I've ever seen it--no answer to, if a President should commit to a peaceful transfer of power. Do none of you at Politico know anything about Hitler, WWII, or totalitarianism? Anyone? AmyConeyBarrett
Ummm, refuses to comment on whether she had an opinion on the peaceful transfer of power? Looks like Politico's writers flunked history and learned nothing about fascism or even current events. Nothing is more important to our democracy RIGHT NOW. That's a flashing RED LIGHT!.
she is the last mail in the GOP coffin
What I took away was she refused to answer many if not most of the questions and she will be forced down our throats!
That's a lie
She belonged to a CULT. We do NOT want a freaking MOONIE on our highest court! What is so hard to grasp about that?
“In one exchange about ethics, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) informed Barrett that Supreme Court justices have fewer disclosure requirements about stock trades and travel paid for by outside groups, as compared to other federal judges and members to Congress.”
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