Barrett to Tell Senate That Making Policy Isn’t Court’s Role

  • Prepared testimony has nods to Democratic, Republican concerns
  • Four days of hearings for Trump’s nominee will start Monday
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Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett will cast herself as a jurist committed to avoiding policy making and keeping her personal views out of rulings as she opens her Senate confirmation hearing on Monday.

In prepared remarks released by the White House, Barrett said she tries to reach the result required by the law, “whatever my own preferences might be.”