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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Amy Coney Barrett says supreme court rulings are ‘not opinion polls’

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Supreme court justices attend Donald Trump’s state of the union speech on 4 March. Photograph: Win McNamee/UPI/Rex/Shutterstock

US supreme court rulings are “not just an opinion poll” of its nine judges’ beliefs, conservative Amy Coney Barrett says, as she and her colleagues weigh a request to overturn the legalization of same-sex marriage.

“The court should not be imposing its own values on the American people,” Barrett remarked in a preview of an interview airing on the latest episode of CBS News Sunday Morning. “That’s for the democratic process.”

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