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Sherrod Brown Says He Will Oppose Barrett Confirmation

Ideastream Public Media | By Sarah Taylor
Published October 16, 2020 at 12:41 PM EDT
Once the Senate Judiciary Committee votes next week, the full Senate will take up the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett.
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Once the Senate Judiciary Committee votes next week, the full Senate will take up the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett.

Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) says he will oppose the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Barrett said during hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week that she had made no deal with President Donald Trump regarding the Affordable Care Act.

A case involving the ACA is due to go before the court in November. President Trump tried and failed to overturn the Act in Congress.

Brown says the president has made it clear overturning the ACA is one of the reasons he chose Barrett.

“She was vetted by the president, the president’s people, the Republicans who want to overturn Roe v Wade and who want to overturn the Affordable Care Act and take away consumer protections on behalf of insurance companies.”

Brown says 5 million Ohioans would lose healthcare coverage if the ACA is struck down.

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Sarah Taylor
A Northeast Ohio native, Sarah Taylor graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio where she worked at her first NPR station, WMUB. She began her professional career at WCKY-AM in Cincinnati and spent two decades in television news, the bulk of them at WKBN in Youngstown (as Sarah Eisler). For the past three years, Sarah has taught a variety of courses in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Kent State, where she is also pursuing a Master’s degree. Sarah and her husband Scott, have two children. They live in Tallmadge.
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