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reDemocrats see former President Barack Obama’s health care reforms threatened with the nomination of conservative attorney Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. A confirmation from Barrett would amount to a vote in favor of abolishing health insurance, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer warned on Saturday (local time).
Schumer said President Donald Trump is once again targeting “American health care” despite the terrible coronavirus pandemic. Pelosi warned that all the protection measures of the health reform, such as the obligation of insurers to give access to health insurance to citizens with pre-existing conditions, “will disappear.” The same applies to the offer to young adults to continue using their parents’ insurance policies.
The Supreme Court is expected to consider a lawsuit sponsored by the Trump administration against health care reform known as Obamacare in November. Under Barrett, Conservative justices would have a majority of six to three votes.
Proposed by Trump
Trump had nominated the Supreme Court justice on Saturday night. It is supposed to take the place of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Barrett is one of America’s brightest and most talented jurists, the president said when the nomination was announced in the White House’s Rose Garden.
The Democratic candidate for the White House race, Joe Biden, warned that Barrett is known to contradict a 2012 Supreme Court ruling to preserve health care reform. Biden wrote that he appealed to Republicans in the Senate not to vote on Supreme Court personnel before the election.
Biden also emphasized that with the end of health reform, patients with corona consequences like pulmonary or heart complications could also be turned away by health insurers. Trump had declared guarantees for people with pre-existing conditions as government policy by presidential decree this week, but it was unclear exactly how this should be reflected in the legislation.
Republicans want to vote soon
According to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republicans in the Senate will vote “in the coming weeks” on Trump’s preferred candidate for the vacant seat on the Supreme Court. Trump could not have made “a better decision” with Barrett, McConnell said in Washington. Expect to meet Barrett next week.
Ginsburg died of cancer last weekend at the age of 87. His death sparked a heated controversy over whether Trump should nominate a successor so shortly before the November presidential election.
Barrett, 48, was on the list of potential Supreme Court candidates two years ago, but at the time Trump chose Brett Kavanaugh, who replaced the resigned Anthony Kennedy. Trump is said to have said in 2018 that he was saving Barrett “for Ginsburg.” Barrett had only been appointed to an appeals court by Trump a year earlier, in 2017, so she only has three years of experience as a judge. Previously, she was a law professor at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, from which she graduated.
Barrett is strictly conservative in her legal opinion.
At his Senate hearing in 2017, there was a dispute with Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein. She told the devout Catholic Barrett “dogma speaks out loud” and thus questioned whether Barrett would only refer to the Constitution at trial or possibly put his faith to the fore. Barrett responded that, as a judge, he could very well separate the two. According to previously public quotes, she is said to have said at a conference that a career as a lawyer or judge is only a means to an end, namely creating “the kingdom of God.” They were confirmed in the Senate with 55 to 43 votes.
