Posted on 11/10/2020 9:00:48 AM PST by John Semmens
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) tore into Justice Amy Coney Barrett for refusing to answer key political questions during her confirmation hearing. "When Sen. Feinstein (D-Calif) asked her whether she thought Medicare was constitutional she refused to say."
Barrett's reply was that "it would be improper for a judge to respond to a hypothetical issue. The role of the courts is to deal with actual cases brought before it. The facts and circumstances of each case are what a court rules on. Without a specific case to adjudicate the courts are not empowered to make pronouncements on the legality of any specific law or policy matter."
"We need to be able to trust the courts to defend the values that all Americans should hold," the Speaker insisted. "We shouldn't have to wait until they adjudicate a case before we find out how they would rule on important issues like abortion, immigration, the environment, or the Green New Deal. I find the kind of reticence expressed by Justice Barrett to be unnerving. How can we transform the nation without knowing in advance how our courts are going to rule? This makes impeaching the ideologically unacceptable judges and replacing them with reliably progressive judges one of the most urgent actions to be undertaken during the first year of the new Biden Administration."
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You have to pass her first to read her, Nanzi!
“How can we transform the nation without knowing in advance how our courts are going to rule?” Is this really what they are asking? Tell me, Nancy..who was it that asked you to transform the nation? Perhaps it would be acceptable for us to transform it just a little....by your conspicuous absence.
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