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Amy Coney Barrett Avoids Weighing In On Roe vs. Wade, Obamacare; Says She’s Made “No Commitment To Anyone”
Ted Johnson Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing on Tuesday played out almost exactly how you would expect.As recent nominees before her have done, she avoided committing to a view on an array of different hotbed issues, including the Affordable Care Act, which is pending before the court next month; gun rights and abortion rights.“Do you agree with Justice Scalia’s view that Roe was wrongly decided?” asked Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA).“If I express a view on a precedent one way or another, whether I say whether I love it or I hate it, it signals to litigants that I might tilt one way or another in a pending case,” Barrett said.
