Judge Amy Coney Barrett declines to express a view on Roe v. Wade
The contentious issue of abortion was raised early in Tuesday’s U.S. Supreme Court nomination hearings by both parties, with Judge Amy Coney Barrett refusing to indicate whether she supported the Supreme Court’s previous rulings that abortion rights were protected by the constitution.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Democrat from California, asked Judge Barrett three times to state her position on a constitutional right to abortion, and each time she invoked the federal judicial code of conduct, which proscribes sitting judges from fully answering certain questions about their legal views, as have previous Supreme Court nominees.
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