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Everything Democrats Care About Is in Danger With Justice Amy Coney Barrett

"Barrett, 48, did not mention People of Praise in her 2017 or 2020 Senate judicial vetting questionnaires, the most recent of which was released on Tuesday.
P - And a request to interview her made through the seventh circuit court of appeals in Chicago, where she currently serves as a judge, was declined."

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Vetting a potential Supreme Court justice 40 days before an election, when Republican senators swore we couldn’t do so 260 days before the last one, is, as the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg might put it, a shandeh. A travesty. A farce.
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One strains to find any ideological balance in this extensive record. With apparently no exceptions, Barrett has taken a right-wing position on every contentious case that has come before her.
P - Apply that standard to questions like voting rights, the ability of the government to enforce environmental law, presidential immunity from prosecution—all subjects of important recent Supreme Court cases—and the impact of a Justice Barrett becomes clear.
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On abortion, Barrett has criticized Roe v. Wade as “judicial fiat” and an “erroneous decision.” At a Notre Dame Law School event in 2013, she asked, rhetorically, “Would it be better to have this battle in the state legislatures and Congress, rather than the Supreme Court?”
P- That standard pro-life position, of course, decides the question before it’s even asked. State legislatures can’t take away constitutional rights—California can’t outlaw Christianity even if 90 percent of Californians want to do so. The whole point of Roe v. Wade is that, before fetal viability, the constitution forbids the government from regulating people’s bodies—women’s bodies in particular—even if a majority of people want to do so.
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But if you imagine Justice Barrett on the bench, it’s either 5-4 or 6-3, with the religious organization winning easily. It’s no longer a close case.
P - Multiply that by thousands of cases across the federal and state courts: religious exemptions for businesses turning away gay or trans people, further limitations on the equality of same-sex marriage, more restrictions on abortion providers and women who get abortions, religious exemptions to employment discrimination laws, funding of religious schools, and countless other issues.
P - Now you see why Senate Republicans are willing to make themselves look like idiots and hypocrites. And why Democrats will have to fight back next year.
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Amy Coney Barrett Confirmed To Supreme Court On Mostly Party Line Vote, Including Gardner And Bennet

By Caitlyn Kim · Oct. 26, 2020, 6:08 pm

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“The pattern is clear: When consumers and workers sought the protection of the law, or the government, she stood in the way,” Bennet said. “I worry that, once confirmed, she will continue that pattern with rulings to destroy hard-won protections for the American people.”

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The remaking of the judiciary has been a priority for McConnell. After Republicans regained control of the Senate in 2015, he denied many Obama judicial nominees consideration for the bench, including Obama’s 2016 nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. In that case, many Republicans, including Gardner, said it was too close to an election and that the American people should have a say.

“It is the sole duty of this chamber to agree or disagree with that nomination," Gardner said Monday.

In 2016, he noted, the chamber didn’t give consent to Merrick Garland, but did to Colorado’s Neil Gorsuch. And now, it has done the same with Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Amy Coney Barrett.

https://www.cpr.org/2020/10/26/amy-coney-barrett-confirmed-to-supreme-court-on-party-line-vote-including-gardner-and-bennet/






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