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Amy Coney Barrett, nominee for the US SUPREME COURT, will tell senators that the courts “should not attempt” to formulate policies, leaving those decisions to the political branches of government, according to opening remarks for confirmation.
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, which begin tomorrow as the coronavirus pandemic spreads across the country, will take place three weeks before Election Day and after millions of Americans have already voted.
President Donald Trump appointed the federal appeals court judge shortly after the death of Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
“I was nominated to fill the position of Judge Ginsburg, but no one will ever take her place,” Barrett will tell the committee, according to her opening remarks in excerpts published by the Associated Press.
She speaks extensively of her family in the statement and says she will never allow the law to define her identity or exclude the rest of her life.
She says a similar principle applies to the courts, which “are not designed to solve all the problems or correct all the errors in our public life.”
“Policy decisions and government value judgments must be made by political powers elected by the people and accountable to them,” he says.
“The public should not expect the courts to do so, and the courts should not try.”
Republicans who control the Senate are moving at a breakneck pace to put the 48-year-old justice on the Supreme Court ahead of the Nov. 3 election, in time to hear a high-profile challenge to the Health Care Act a Low Price and any election related challenges that may follow voting.
Another reason to move quickly: It’s unclear whether the election results would make it harder to confirm Barrett before the end of the year if Democrat Joe Biden won the White House and Democrats won Senate seats.
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The hearing will take place less than a month after Ginsburg’s death gave Trump a chance to replace liberal justice and cement a conservative majority in the nine-member court.
Barrett would be Trump’s third Supreme Court justice.
The country will see Barrett for three days, beginning with his opening statement late Monday and the hours of questioning on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Democrats have so far lobbied to delay hearings, first because of the upcoming elections and now because of the threat of the virus.
No Supreme Court judge has ever been confirmed this close to a presidential election.
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