Supreme Court nominee John Roberts shakes Sen. Board that no one questions anymore," she added. It just means that it doesn't fall in the small handful of cases like Marbury v. But that doesn't mean that Roe should be overruled. " Roe is not a super-precedent because calls for its overruling have never ceased. "And I'm answering a lot of questions about Roe, which I think indicates that Roe doesn't fall in that category," she said. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who asked if Barrett considered Roe to be a "super-precedent."īarrett answered by defining super-precedent as "cases that are so well settled that no political actors and no people seriously push for their overruling." Perhaps the most revealing moment for Barrett came as she was being questioned by Sen. Heller, a landmark Second Amendment ruling.īut she added that legal challenges to precedents can make their way through the courts back to the Supreme Court, where major rulings can then be revisited. "Judges can't just wake up one day and say I have an agenda - I like guns, I hate guns, I like abortion, I hate abortion - and walk in like a royal queen and impose their will on the world," Barrett said in response to a question about District of Columbia v. Politics A Look At Amy Coney Barrett's Record On Abortion Rights
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