« It’s distressing not to get a straight answer. »
Consider this box checked. In fact, consider it checked three times, thanks to Dianne Feinstein’s insistence on repeating the same question while promising to rephrase it. Before she gets around to asking it, Feinstein recalls the “trips to Mexico” made by women seeking abortion, and then cites Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s defense of abortion in her 1993 confirmation hearing. “I hope you will be equally forthright in your answers,” Feinstein warns Amy Coney Barrett. Nice try: Barrett declines to say whether she believes Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided or should be overturned: « I completely understand why you’re asking the question, but again, I can’t pre-commit or say, ‘Yes, I’m going in with some agenda,’ because I’m not » https://t.co/NN41m4Si1f pic.twitter.com/LRkP8hFdFB CBS News (@CBSNews) October 13,2020 “I guess I’ve gone as far as I can,” Feinstein finally concedes after Barrett offers the same answer three times — that she can’t take a position on an issue that’s likely to come before the court.
