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A minister used to be leading a brutal crackdown on protesters. Abortion a bomb a care guns and gay marriage just some of the topics which featured on day 2 of the confirmation hearing of President Trumps u. S. Supreme Court Nominee amy county barrett republican and Democratic Senators took turns grilling her on key topics which have become central to the debate surrounding her appointment the senate could vote by the end of the month on whether to confirm barrett just ahead of the u. S. Poll one of them the 3rd but she declined to say whether she would recuse herself from any cases relating to next months president ial election. My colleagues have asked you today whether you would recuse yourself from cases on the Affordable Care act you did not directly answer their questions and instead you described the process by which that would work or happen and so my question is isnt it true then at the end of that process regardless of that process that it would be for ultimately would make t
And extreme weather warning the u. N. Says the number of climate related natural disasters has doubled in 20 years and cost the world trillions of dollars. Hello thanks for joining us a divided u. S. Senate is pressing ahead with confirmation hearings for a Supreme Court nominee any tony barrett just 3 weeks from the president ial election so republicans are trying to rapidly confirm her and expand the courts conservative majority Supreme Court positions are Lifetime Appointments so judges are expected to serve for decades as the 1st hearing gets underway protesters both for and against barretts confirmation have been chanting outside the courts that see became vacant after the death of liberal Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg her dying wish was for her replacements to be chosen after the president. Election of Lindsey Graham is the republican chair of the Senate Judiciary committee and he defended the timing of barretts nomination though the Republican Majority Senate 4 years ago refused t
Developing countries access code 19 votes. President trumps u. S. Supreme Court Nominee says she has made no commitment to the white house on how she would rule on major cases including election disputes any county barack testified before a Senate Committee on the 2nd day of her confirmation hearing shes been pressed by several democrats about her position on key issues such as health care and abortion and fisher reports. On capitol hill it was time for judge to make money bennett to face questions from senators the chairman of the committee was a new doubt the president picked the right person to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg i would say youre one of the greatest pics president trapped in a mate and from the conservative side of the aisle youre one of the most qualified people. Your generation if you could be more specific in any way several democrats wanted the judge to make her position clear on controversial issues that may soon come before the Supreme
Cases on the Affordable Care act you did not directly answer their questions and instead you described the process by which that would work or happen and so my question is isnt it true then at the end of that process regardless of that process that it would be for ultimately would make the decision about whether or not you should recuse yourself that is true and i cant have you elicit a commitment from me about how i would make that decision in advance that would be wrong. Alan fischer has more from washington d. C. A theme running throughout all of iniquity ballots responses when asked about cases that could well go to the Supreme Court she simply said that she wasnt going to prejudge anything that may come across her desk she used the words of Ruth Bader Ginsburg during her nomination hearing saying that there could be no hints forecasts or previews what was interesting is she was asked several times whether or not she would recuse herself if she was involved in decisions about the A