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In an exclusive interview with EWTN's Raymond Arroyo, Vice President Mike Pence speaks about the recent Senate confirmation hearings of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, his faith, and the importance of religious freedom.
WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence pushed back on critics of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett in an interview airing Thursday with EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo, arguing that they cannot presume to know how she would rule on any particular case as a justice on the high court.
During Barrett’s confirmation hearing this week before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senate Democrats have pointed to a pro-life lettersigned by Barrett in 2006, as well as a 2017 essayshe wrote as a professor at Notre Dame Law School critical of the Supreme Court’s majority opinion that upheld the Affordable Care Act — also known as Obamacare — to characterize Barrett as an ideologue.
In the World Over interview, Pence said he is pro-life and proud to be part of a pro-life administration, but President Donald Trump “nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett because she is a brilliant jurist who will uphold the Constitution, who will interpret laws as written and won't legislate from the bench.”
“I wouldn't presume how she would rule on any case,” Pence said. “But the president kept his word in nominating someone who will uphold all the liberties enshrined in our Constitution and will serve in a manner consistent with her mentor with whom she worked, the late Justice Antonin Scalia.” Pence reiterated the administration’s opposition to the ACA, but said those who argue Barrett would throw it out are “presuming how a Justice Amy Coney Barrett would rule.”
“The American people can be confident,” Pence said. “With four more years of President Donald Trump in the White House, we'll have health care reform based on freedom, free markets, we'll allow Americans to purchase health insurance across state lines, we’ll protect Americans with pre-existing conditions.”
At a Monday rally in Columbus, Ohio, Pence brought up Barrett’s 2017 confirmation hearing in which Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., told the nominee that "the dogma lives loudly within you" and that was a “concern.”
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VP Pence: Amy Coney Barrett Will Not Legislate From the Bench
WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence pushed back on critics of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett in an interview airing Thursday with EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo, arguing that they cannot presume to know how she would rule on any particular case as a justice on the high court.
During Barrett’s confirmation hearing this week before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senate Democrats have pointed to a pro-life lettersigned by Barrett in 2006, as well as a 2017 essayshe wrote as a professor at Notre Dame Law School critical of the Supreme Court’s majority opinion that upheld the Affordable Care Act — also known as Obamacare — to characterize Barrett as an ideologue.
In the World Over interview, Pence said he is pro-life and proud to be part of a pro-life administration, but President Donald Trump “nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett because she is a brilliant jurist who will uphold the Constitution, who will interpret laws as written and won't legislate from the bench.”
“I wouldn't presume how she would rule on any case,” Pence said. “But the president kept his word in nominating someone who will uphold all the liberties enshrined in our Constitution and will serve in a manner consistent with her mentor with whom she worked, the late Justice Antonin Scalia.” Pence reiterated the administration’s opposition to the ACA, but said those who argue Barrett would throw it out are “presuming how a Justice Amy Coney Barrett would rule.”
“The American people can be confident,” Pence said. “With four more years of President Donald Trump in the White House, we'll have health care reform based on freedom, free markets, we'll allow Americans to purchase health insurance across state lines, we’ll protect Americans with pre-existing conditions.”
At a Monday rally in Columbus, Ohio, Pence brought up Barrett’s 2017 confirmation hearing in which Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., told the nominee that "the dogma lives loudly within you" and that was a “concern.”
Continued below.
VP Pence: Amy Coney Barrett Will Not Legislate From the Bench
