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Barrett Frustrates Feinstein With Response To Repeated Roe v. Wade Questions

"I can't commit ... "

Amanda Prestigiacomo
Barrett Frustrates Feinstein With Response To Repeated Roe v. Wade Questions
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Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett said during her Tuesday confirmation hearing that she would not commit one way or the other on matters regarding Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion case that would push the legalization of abortion back to the states if overturned.

Barrett argued that expressing a view on a precedent would signal to litigants “that I might tilt one way or another in a pending case.”

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