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Candidate judge Barrett: ‘courts should not make policy’

If US Judge Amy Coney Barrett is appointed to the federal Supreme Court, she will be strictly guided by the law, not personal views. She will declare that to the Senate tomorrow.

Of conservative Coney Barrett was nominated by President Trump after the death of liberal judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Tomorrow, a four-day hearing will begin in the Senate in which Coney Barrett will be questioned. In anticipation of this, she issued her statement today.

She says courts shouldn’t try to make policy, it’s up to the government. “And the public should not expect judges to engage in politics.” She further argues that courts are “not meant to solve every problem or correct every mistake in society”.

Procrastination

Coney Barrett says she follows the line of her mentor, Judge Antonin Scalia, who served on the Supreme Court between 1986 and 2016. Republicans hold a narrow majority in the Senate, so Coney Barrett’s nomination is expected to receive adequate support.

Democrats have pushed for the hearings to be postponed. They consider an appointment so shortly before the elections inappropriate and argue that it should take place under a new president. The Democrats are against the appointment of another Conservative judge to the Supreme Court.

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