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When President Donald Trump was rumored to be considering Judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace Ruth Bader Ginsberg on the U.S. Supreme Court, all leftists could talk about were her pro-life views and her seven children.
Now they’ve changed tactics. They apparently didn’t think abortion was enough of a wedge issue for black voters, so now they’re on to Obamacare, something they believe will cause black voters to rise up in alarm and flood the polls on November 3.
In her opening statement during the first day of her confirmation hearing on Monday, Judge Barrett, currently serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, talked about serving as a law clerk for the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
Justice Scalia’s judicial philosophy was that a judge must apply the law as it is written, not as he wishes it were written.
“Sometimes that approach meant reaching results he did not like,” Judge Barrett said. That’s what it means to have a government of laws and not of men. Barrett said courts have a responsibility to the rule of law, and they’re not designed to solve every problem or right every wrong in public life.
“The public should not expect courts to do so, and courts should not try. The policy decisions and value judgments of governments must be made by the political branches elected by and accountable to the people.”
Watch her full opening statement below:
I spent all yesterday listening to In her opening statement during the first day of her confirmation hearing on Monday, Judge Barrett, currently serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, talked about serving as a law clerk for the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Justice Scalia’s judicial philosophy was that a judge must apply the law as it is written, not as he wishes it were written.“Sometimes that approach meant reaching results he did not like,” Judge Barrett said. That’s what it means to have a government of laws and not of men. Barrett said courts have a responsibility to the rule of law, and they’re not designed to solve every problem or right every wrong in public life.The public should not expect courts to do so, and courts should not try. The policy decisions and value judgments of governments must be made by the political branches elected by and accountable to the people.” I although I have profound philosophical disagreements with Judge Barrett,but she is a very nice lady, but when she says President Donald John Trump is the first president to refuse to show his tax returns I will challenge her to show me in the Constitution of the United States of America or Title 18 of the United States Criminal Code where such a provision exists and if she cannot I will call her a damned liar to her face! President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the first president to do so and he did it just embarrass Richard Milhous Nixon who was a tax lawyer anyway. I am an old soldier and one of the young Special Forces kids told me that in Finnish the word kamala means horrible. When As a historian I fully realize that the fall of the Roman Empire was caused by the lead water pipes in Rome but Newark, New Jersey has lead pipes and Senator Cory Anthony Booker when he was questioning Judge Barrett, I started laughing because that fool has never raise one child let alone seven. By the way Associte Justice of the United States Supreme Court Joan Ruth Bader Ginsberg had one hundred law clerks and not one was black.