Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is vowing to bring no "agenda” to the court, batting back senators' questions Tuesday on abortion, gun rights and the November
election, insisting she would take a conservative approach to the law but decide cases as they come.
“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 at the second day of confirmation hearings before the
Senate Judiciary Committee.
The 48-year-old appellate court judge, nominated by President
Donald Trump and on track for quick confirmation before the Nov. 3 election, also declined to commit to recusing herself from any cases arising from that election.