Amy Coney Barrett hearing begins third day with more questioning from senators – live

Each committee member will get 20 minutes to speakBarrett dodges abortion and healthcare questionsTrump and Biden offer different visions of US role in worldTrump in trouble as Florida’s seniors shift towards BidenSign up for Fight to Vote – our weekly US election newsletter 2.47pm BST Responding to questions from Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate judiciary committee, Amy Coney Barrett would not say whether she considered Medicare to be constitutional.Asked if she agreed with originalists who have said the popular healthcare program for older Americans was unconstitutional, Barrett said she could not say because she was not familiar with the arguments for that. 2.34pm BST Lindsey Graham criticized some of his Democratic colleagues’ questions about a 2006 ad that Amy Coney Barrett signed on to, which said life begins at fertilization.The ad was organized by St Joseph County Right to Life, an extreme anti-choice group that has also argued the process of discarding unused or frozen embryos created during the in vitro fertilization (IVF) process should be criminalized.Lindsey Graham now trying to give Amy Coney Barrett cover on the issue of IVF and whether it should be criminalized, as a group whose ad she signed said. Another sign GOP knows that’s dangerous ground for them to be on Continue reading…
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