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Supreme Court Nominee Barrett: Courts 'Should Not Try' to Make Policy

Ken Bredemeier

   Confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett
   opened Monday in Washington, with Barrett telling senators that courts
   "should not try" to make policy and should leave that to American
   presidents and Congress.

   Barrett laid out a strict interpretation of the high court's role,
   saying it is "not designed to solve every problem or right every wrong
   in our public life."

   As the hearings started, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the lead Democrat on
   the Senate Judiciary Committee, immediately signaled that the minority
   Democrats plan to sharply question Barrett about one major policy
   dispute -- her view that a 2012 Supreme Court decision upholding the
   legality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a national health care law
   affecting millions of Americans, was wrongly decided.

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