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Cartaphelius

(868 posts)
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 10:39 AM Oct 2020

Barrett claims she is not hostile

to the ACA in her response with Cornyn.

But clearly, she is religiously hostile toward Roe, LGBT and the ACA.

Yet, ignoring the rights of christians and non-christians alike because her
religion and her fellow "christians" demands the exclusion of rights to
the poor above all else to cement power for the future Religious regime.

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Barrett claims she is not hostile (Original Post) Cartaphelius Oct 2020 OP
waiting for a Kavanaugh moment... agingdem Oct 2020 #1
Don't hold your breath FBaggins Oct 2020 #2
If you listened closely, earlier when asked about her stance on ACA w100jmi Oct 2020 #3
If she doesn't want to answer questions about her views, she should not have James4Biden Oct 2020 #4

FBaggins

(26,748 posts)
2. Don't hold your breath
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 10:48 AM
Oct 2020

She's dramatically more capable at this phase of the game than he was... and isn't likely to have the same kind of allegations raised.

There's a reason they saved her for the Ginsburg seat. I just wish they didn't get the opportunity.

w100jmi

(97 posts)
3. If you listened closely, earlier when asked about her stance on ACA
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 11:02 AM
Oct 2020

She says she doesn't hold an opinion or judgement yet but if you listened, she said "I don't have all the facts and opinions in front of me TO CHANGE MY MIND, so I cannot answer. She contradict herself and that needs to be brought up.

James4Biden

(9 posts)
4. If she doesn't want to answer questions about her views, she should not have
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 11:29 AM
Oct 2020

published opinions of them in the past.

It’s clear Senate Democrats have decided that hammering Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett on her stated disdain for the Affordable Care Act is a winning message. They did it all day Monday, mostly to success, and a lot of Tuesday. But Senator Dick Durbin was one of the first to introduce another equally important line of questioning Tuesday: why she thinks felons are entitled to own guns, despite state and federal law to the contrary, but not to vote.

Barrett wrote a stunning 38-page dissent to the 27-page majority opinion in the 2019 Kanter vs. Barr, in which a Wisconsin felon who’d served his time challenged laws prohibiting him from purchasing a gun. I’m not a lawyer, so I can’t vouch for the quality of her legal reasoning. Also, since I’m not a lawyer, I was slightly befuddled by her claim that the distinction was a matter of “individual rights,” which applied to gun ownership, versus “civic rights,” which include voting. It was clear to me her point was that gun rights are more fundamental than voting rights, but I didn’t know how she got there.

Luckily, smarter folks than I have teased it out. My colleague Elie Mystal went appropriately ballistic on Twitter, so I learned from him. Also helpful was this New Republic piece by Matt Ford. True to her self-identification as an “originalist,” hewing closely to what is essentially a subjective view of what the “founders” intended as they wrote the Constitution, Barrett saw a basis for distinguishing between felons who committed violent crimes, and those, like Rickey Kanter, whose crime, multimillion-dollar mail fraud, was nonviolent.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/amy-coney-barrett-voting-rights/

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