“There’s no argument that’s going to be persuasive enough to shame Senate Republicans to look within themselves and do the right thing.”
“Republicans are also well aware that they’re being hypocrites by violating the precedent they set in 2016 when they refused to consider President Barack Obama’s nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, during an election year.”
“…she will likely be the deciding vote on the Supreme Court in the case to overturn the Affordable Care Act in the middle of a pandemic that has already killed more than 210,000 people in the United States.”
“Given Barrett’s record criticizing the 2012 court decision upholding the law, there can be little doubt about how she would vote. She wrote in 2017 that Roberts “pushed the Affordable Care Act beyond its plausible meaning to save the statute.”
“Any senator who votes for her will be at least partly responsible for more than 20 million people’s losing their health insurance. And they’ll be responsible for insurance companies’ once again being allowed to discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions.”
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