Barrett Avoids Slips as Democrats Press on Abortion, Health Care
- Supreme Court nominee faces scrutiny on overturning precedents
- She says her only agenda is to ‘decide cases as they come’
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Democrats grilled U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett about abortion rights, health-care law, guns and election disputes but ended a marathon day of testimony having made little progress derailing her likely Senate confirmation and a strengthened conservative majority on the court.
Barrett refused to say Tuesday whether she would disqualify herself from impending presidential election disputes. She offered no hints on how she would vote should the court reconsider Roe v. Wade, although she said she doesn’t consider that landmark abortion-rights ruling a “super-precedent” that would be unthinkable to overturn.