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![Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the third day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on October 14, 2020, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/10/GettyImages-1229072945-400x300.jpg)
Black Civil Rights Leaders Fear Barrett “Invites a Return to a Racist Past”
Leaders of five prominent organizations agreed that Amy Coney Barrett was alarmingly evasive on questions about racism.
![Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett smiles at the end of her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on October 14, 2020, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/10/2020_1016-amy-coney-barrett--400x300.jpg)
Barrett Is Poised to Become the Most Radical Right-Wing Member of Supreme Court
Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation threatens health care, voting rights, racial justice and reproductive rights.
![West Virginia Mom Tells Her Abortion Story in Speech Against Amy Coney Barrett](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/10/SEG2-CrystalGood-3-400x300.jpg)
West Virginia Mom Tells Her Abortion Story in Speech Against Amy Coney Barrett
Judge Barrett has refused to answer questions about her views on abortion despite her public record of opposition.
![While holding photographs of people who would be impacted by the elimination of the Affordable Health Care Act, Democratic senators speak to reporters at the end of the first day of the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett on Capitol Hill on October 12, 2020, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/10/2020_1016-democrats-aca-400x300.jpg)
Outnumbered on Supreme Court Nomination, Democrats Campaign for ACA
Democrats are refighting the war that helped them pick up seats in 2018 by focusing on the threat to health care.
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Barrett’s Confirmation Would Empower Catholic Hospitals to Deny Crucial Care
Catholic hospitals have increasingly become the only option for many communities.
![Amy Coney Barrett Won’t Say Climate Change Is Real](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/10/SEG2-ACB-2-400x300.jpg)
Amy Coney Barrett Says Climate Change Is a “Very Contentious Matter”
The Supreme Court nominee also did not recall that the First Amendment protects the right to protest.
![A person in a mask stoops down to help a homeless man in a tent fill out the census on a tablet](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/10/2020_1015census-400x300.jpg)
Trump Has Cut the Census Short. As a Census Worker, I Can See Who Will Suffer.
Those who don’t get counted stand to lose even more power to the very forces that are keeping them from responding.
![Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett testifies on the third day of her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on October 14, 2020, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/10/2020_1014-amy-coney-barrett-2-400x300.jpg)
Does Trump Have Power to Pardon Himself? His Supreme Court Nominee Won’t Say.
Most experts say a president can't self-pardon, but Trump has previously asserted he has the power to do so.
![Supreme Court justice nominee Amy Coney Barrett holds up her notepad at the request of Sen. John Cornyn on the second day of her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on October 13, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/10/2020_1013-amy-coney-b-400x300.jpg)
Amy Coney Barrett Refuses to Answer If Trump Can Delay the Election or Not
Barrett calls herself an originalist but the Constitution is very clear -- only Congress can change the election date.
![Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett looks on during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on October 13, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/10/2020_1013-amy-coney-barrett-d-400x300.jpg)
Barrett Decried Roe’s “Barbaric Legacy,” But Now Says She Doesn’t Have an Agenda
Recent polling demonstrates that 6 in 10 Americans want abortion rights established and “Roe v. Wade” protected.