Two years after Brett Kavanaugh’s hearings upended the midterms, the Amy Coney Barrett hearings haven’t been a major factor in voters’ decisions or campaigns’ messaging.
Only a few lawmakers have questioned the Supreme Court’s nominee’s record of ruling in favor of the Trump administration on immigration cases as the high court takes up challenges to the president’s border funding and asylum policies.
Senators in the minority used the week of Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s hearings to make the public case against the SCOTUS nomination rather than jam up the process and risk losing procedural rights.
BY Zach C. Cohen, Madelaine Pisani |
October 15, 2020
Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court is animating conservative women opposed to abortion, but Sen. Joni Ernst is downplaying the issue in the face of a politically treacherous gender gap.
Three ambitious Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee could raise their profiles at Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s hearing on an issue critical to conservatives.
