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Ever since the vile left invented the idea of “Borking” a judicial nominee in the late 1980s, it has been the precedent that nominees would not comment on how they would rule on any given topic. It was Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s staunch application of the precedent that gave it the name “the Ginsburg Rule.” Even recent judicial nominee has adhered to this precedent, yet according to CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell, it was Judge Amy Coney Barrett “dodging questions” from Democrats.
From the moment she started speaking, O’Donnell was trying to gaslight her viewers. In the opening tease, the anchor huffed about how Barrett “gave few specifics” on “how she'd rule on abortion, guns, and health care.”
Refusing to acknowledge the precedent that even liberal Justices Kagan and Sotomayor followed, O’Donnell insisted Judge Barrett was “dodging questions”:
President Trump's pick for the Supreme Court, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, has spent the day defending her judicial philosophy, and dodging questions about how she'd rule on future cases, including next month's challenge to ObamaCare. Barrett also refused to say how she would rule on abortion, insisting she has not made deals with the President or the White House.
And while she would not commit to recusing herself from any election-related cases, Barrett said she would not be used as a pawn by the President to decide the election in his favor.
CBS chief congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes agreed with O’Donnell and began her report by echoing Democrats who “accuse her of being evasive about some of her positions.”
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