Judge Amy Coney Barrett pushed back against an effort by Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) to argue she would decide cases just like her male predecessor.
During Wednesday confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) read from Barrett’s dissent in Kanter v. Barr (2019), noting that she holds “the Second Amendment confers an individual right.”
Ted Cruz noted that “packing the Court” meant “expanding the number of justices to achieve a political outcome,” not “filling judicial vacancies.”
Support for Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation continues to rise among all voters, including Democrats, a Morning Consult survey released on Wednesday confirmed.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett stood up to hostile questioning on Wednesday morning by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) about her dissent in the Kanter v. Barr case last year, after he falsely claimed that she had described the right to vote as “secondary.”
Democrats have released a list of their witnesses for the final day of hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett, which includes a witness described as someone who “fought for her right to obtain an abortion at age 16.”
Judge Amy Coney Barrett described some of the attacks that have been lodged against her, such as being called a “white colonist” for adopting two Haitian children, as “cruel” and “hurtful” not just to herself, but to her children.
Deans at the law schools at Harvard, Yale, New York University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford all declined an invitation to comment from the College Fix on the chaos surrounding Supreme Court nominations.
Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA), the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, pronounced herself “really impressed” with Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s explanation of the doctrine of severability during her confirmation hearing on Wednesday.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will start the third nomination hearing for the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Senate confirmation hearings continue on Wednesday. Senators will have 20-minute rounds for questioning. Stay tuned to Breitbart News for live updates. All times Eastern.
U.S. senators were sent a letter on behalf of 550 former abortion workers in support of Barrett’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Cuomo Primetime,” host Chris Cuomo stated that Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett is “different than most Catholics. I think that her faith is, by design, more central to her value system and her
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) suggested United States Supreme Court rulings must take into account the impact on illegal aliens shielded from deportation by President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Progressive filmmaker Michael Moore shared an altered photo on Twitter Monday in an apparent attempt to smear Judge Amy Coney Barrett.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) says the late United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was “far more forthcoming” than 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Amy Coney Barrett during a hearing on Tuesday.
Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) told Breitbart News Democrats are “resigned” to Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s expected confirmation to the Supreme Court.
In an effort to show her opposition towards the nominee, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) cited letters from Planned Parenthood and the NAACP during Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump’s campaign released an ad on Tuesday castigating Joe Biden, the Democrat nominee, for refusing to reveal his stance on packing the Supreme Court.
Kamala Harris falsely said Obamacare depends on Barrett; that she’d overturn it; and 100 million with pre-existing conditions depend on it.
Democrats were outraged Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett used the term “sexual preference” on Tuesday, a phrase their own presidential nominee uttered in May.
Sen. Dick Blumenthal claimed he had a “direct quote” from Amy Coney Barrett’s dissent in Kanter v. Barr. He did not.
“Senator Klobuchar, I can’t really speak to what the president has said on Twitter,” Barrett replied. “He hasn’t said any of that to me.”
“I appreciated judge, you said that you did not want to be queen,” Klobuchar began. “I would not mind being a queen around here, the truth be known.”
Sen.Ted Cruz said on Tuesday that if Roe v. Wade is overturned, it would fall to the states to decide abortion laws.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Tuesday slammed Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s (D-RI) attack on “dark money,” noting that Fortune 500 companies and Wall Street “overwhelmingly favor” Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Tuesday demanded that Judge Amy Coney Barrett pledge to recuse herself from “any cases involving the 2020 election.”
Judge Amy Coney Barrett said unequivocally during her Supreme Court confirmation hearing Tuesday that she has not promised President Donald Trump or anyone that she would vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) if confirmed — despite Democrats’ repeated insistence that she will.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) noted when he had the opportunity to question Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett that the desk where she sat on Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee was virtually empty.
Tuesday, during an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) criticized the tack taken by Senate Democrats during the opening portion of Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing.
Hollywood actress and host of NBC’s “Weakest Link” Jane Lynch attacked Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-TK) during Tuesday’s confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, calling the senator a “whining little a** boy.”
Unlike Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar did not make up a fake Lincoln quote. But like Harris, she also misconstrued the history.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett addressed the progressive claims that she would single-handedly dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — more commonly known as Obamacare — during a line of questioning from Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), explicitly stating that she is “not hostile to the ACA.”
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett explained her personal judicial philosophy on Textualism and Originalism during Day 2 of her confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday.
NBC political commentator former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said Tuesday on MSNBC that Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s refusal to say during her Supreme Court confirmation hearings if she believes President Donald Trump has the power to move an election date was “just dumb.”
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) used his entire time on the second day of the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Amy Coney Barrett on Tuesday to present a “dark money” conspiracy theory. He asked Judge Barrett no actual questions.
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) proclaimed on Tuesday that Judge Amy Coney Barrett, if confirmed, will “vote to strip millions of Americans of their health care.”
Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Tuesday revealed her personal reaction to the George Floyd death video that sparked protests and riots across the country.
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett said her commitment to the rule of law is separate from her devotion to her faith and family.
Several left-wing feminists failed to rally around Judge Amy Coney Barrett as her confirmation hearings kicked off, mocking her and belittling her status as a mother of seven children.
