Barrett Supreme Court hearing expected to focus on health care with the pandemic looming over the proceeding
The mere circumstances of the confirmation hearing — usually a packed affair on Capitol Hill that draws hundreds of supporters, protesters and observers — will be bare-bones, with rigorous social distancing guidelines in place to prevent any transmission among the few allowed inside the Hart Senate Office meeting room. At least two members of the Judiciary Committee will participate in the proceedings remotely, after being diagnosed with the coronavirus or to protect themselves from the virus.
“Justice Barrett’s record and previous public statements clearly indicate that she would vote to strike down the ACA and overturn Roe,” Schumer said, referring the landmarkRepublicans have noted that Justice Elena Kagan did not recuse in key cases on the Affordable Care Act, even though she was solicitor general for the Obama administration when the law was enacted and would have been in a position to defend its legality in court had she stayed in that position.
“Obviously President Trump says a whole bunch of things and so he may say something that’s more outcomes-based,” Sen. Ben Sasse said on “Fox News Sunday.” “But for those of us who sit on the committee or those of us who are making the judgment about how we’ll vote in the United States Senate on Amy Barrett’s nomination and her ultimate confirmation, is because of how she spells out what the job of a judge is. And that is not outcome-based.
There is already a palpable concern among Republican senators that other issues are swiping attention away from Barrett’s likely confirmation and the 6-to-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court that the GOP would help solidify.
But Republicans say they view any reference to her personal opposition to abortion as an attack on her religious convictions. Barrett’s antiabortion stance is well documented; in 2006, Barrett signed her name to an Indiana newspaper advertisement in the South Bend Tribune that denounced the “barbaric legacy” ofand called for it to be overturned. She was a law professor at the University of Notre Dame at the time, where she was also a member of Faculty for Life.
Tillis, who was diagnosed with the coronavirus and had attended the White House event for Barrett, said last week that he was improving but that he will probably join via video for at least the first day.Democrats called on Graham to require coronavirus testing for all senators in advance, but he declined. He said in an interview on Fox News on Sunday that he was tested last week and was negative for the virus.
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