Sandra Slack Glover said she never would have signed a letter supporting Barrett for a federal appeals court position if she knew she would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett was nominated by President Donald Trump to succeed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and has served since 2020.HARTFORD, Conn. — A nominee to Connecticut’s highest court told state lawmakers Monday that she would not have signed a 2017 letter supporting Amy Coney Barrett for a federal appeals court position if she knew Barrett would later voteSandra Slack Glover, a federal prosecutor nominated by Democratic Gov.
Glover added she was a firm supporter of abortion rights, from the perspectives of both a woman and a lawyer.Glover was among 34 people who served as U.S. Supreme Court law clerks in 1998, along with Barrett, who signed the 2017 letter to leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee supporting Barrett’s nomination to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. In 1998, Barrett was a clerk for Justice Antonin Scalia and Glover was a clerk for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
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