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Preview: Amy Coney Barrett To Honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Praise Antonin Scalia In Confirmation Hearing Opening Statement

Emily Zanotti
Preview: Amy Coney Barrett To Honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Praise Antonin Scalia In Confirmation Hearing Opening Statement
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Judge Amy Coney Barrett will praise her mentor, the late Justice Antonin Scalia, and honor the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a brief series of remarks to open her Senate confirmation hearings Monday morning.

The four-page statement, issued to most major media outlets on Sunday, has Barrett focusing intently on her judicial qualifications and her theory of interpreting the law, rather than her background, family, or religion — something left-leaning and progressive activists have focused intently on over the past several weeks.

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