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The former vice president has repeatedly declined to answer whether he would add justices to the Supreme Court.

During Wednesday's hearing, Barrett maintained her view that it would be inappropriate to comment on the national health care law or other cases that may come before her as a justice.

Judge Amy Coney Barrett spent three days during this week's Supreme Courtconfirmation hearings declining to tell senators or the public where shestands on Roe v.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is poised to take the first steps toward approving Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett following two long days of Senate testimony in which she stressed that she would be her own judge and sought to create distance between herself and past positions.

The U.S. Senate judiciary committee has scheduled a vote to approve Judge Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court — before her confirmation hearings have even ended.

Senate majority leader views remaking the federal bench in his conservative image as the crowning achievement of his time alongside Mr Trump, US political correspondent Griffin Connolly writes

Democrats consider ending the filibuster if they win a Senate majority and the White House. The move could help them thwart Republicans' obstructions.

Members of People of Praise say it's a Christian fellowship. Some former members and critics say it's authoritarian and controlling.

President Donald Trump's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court has close ties to a charismatic Christian religious group that holds men are divinely ordained as the "head" of the family and faith. Former members of the group, called People of Praise, say it teaches that wives must submit to the will

President Donald Trump's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court has close ties to a charismatic Christian religious group that holds men are divinely ordained as the "head" of the family and faith. Former members of the group, called People of Praise, say it teaches that wives must submit to the will of their husbands. Federal appeals judge Amy Coney Barrett has not commented publicly about her own or her family's…

If Donald Trump's nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the American Supreme Court is confirmed, she will be the sixth of the nine judges in the country's highest legal institution to profess allegiance to the Catholic Church, an organisation which represents less than one-fith of US citizens.Barrett

Maybe there's some irony in a British immigrant preaching pro-democracy revolution in America, but these are strange times. The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Oliver said on Sunday's Last Week Tonight, "was distressing enough" before President Trump rushed to fill the Supreme Court

Widely viewed as the president's top choice for the vacancy, Amy Coney Barrett has previously spoken out against shifting the balance of the nation's highest court

President Donald Trump named Amy Coney Barrett as his pick to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat

Amy Coney Barrett paid homage to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her White House speech Saturday as a shatterer of glass ceilings. Barrett, a judge on the federal appeals court based in Chicago, made clear in her Rose Garden address that she looks to conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, for whom she

The nomination of a conservative judge paves the way for a bitter Senate fight as an election looms.

What a piece of work is this man: Trump trolls liberals with Barrett history playDavid Smith's sketch: The stage dressed to recall Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the president portrayed her arch-conservative successor as the embodiment of feminist virtue * Report: Trump names Barrett, stoking liberal backlash

Jamie Harrison's campaign received a massive surge of donations following the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

President Donald Trump has urged a quick Senate vote on a Supreme Court nominee he aims to name by Saturday. Democrats' hopes of keeping the seat empty faded on Monday when two Republican Senators, Chuck Grassley and Cory Gardner, signaled their support for moving forward quickly.

Trump races to fill supreme court seat as Republicans fall into lineDemocrats' hopes of keeping seat empty fade as two key Republican senators signal support for moving quickly