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Judge Amy Connie Barrett referred to most of the days of her confirmation hearing questions as the “Ginsberg rule” and refused to give a position on whether she agreed with past examples. This is an approach popularized by late Justice Ruth Bader Jensberg (although she did actually speak more freely …
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