Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and fellow Democrats warned that if the Senate approves President Trump's third Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, she could cast a decisive vote to strike down the Obamacare health law
WASHINGTON/WILMINGTON, Del. - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and fellow Democrats on Sunday made it clear that their opposition to President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, will focus on the possibility she could cast a decisive vote to strike down the Obamacare health law.
Instead, their attacks appeared aimed at energizing their political base with an issue that is already a talking point for Biden, who gave a speech on the subject in Wilmington, Delaware on Sunday. In a White House Rose Garden ceremony on Saturday, Trump announced Barrett, 48, as his selection to replace liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Sept. 18 at age 87. Barrett said she would be a justice in the mold of her mentor, the late staunch conservative Antonin Scalia, who twice voted in favor of previous unsuccessful Obamacare challenges.Biden tied the fate of the law to the ongoing coronavirus crisis, in which more than 200,000 Americans have died.
Trump failed in attempts to repeal Obamacare when Republicans controlled the Senate and House of Representatives, and Republicans have yet to say what they would replace the law with.Democratic senators on Sunday echoed Biden’s message, saying it would be a focus of questions Barrett will face during a multi-day confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee due to start on Oct. 12.
Republican senators have made it clear they plan to have a final vote on Barrett before the election, with Senator Mike Lee saying on ABC that he did not expect a backlash at the polls because Trump had campaigned in 2016 on appointing conservative justices.Lee said he believes Obamacare is unconstitutional but that it would be up to Barrett to vote as she saw fit.
The only time in U.S. history that the Supreme Court has had to resolve a presidential election was in 2000.Like Trump’s two other appointees, Neil Gorsuch in 2017 and Brett Kavanaugh in 2018, Barrett is young enough that she could serve for decades in the lifetime job, leaving a lasting conservative imprint.
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