"This Supreme Court nominee has signaled in the judicial equivalent of all caps that she believes the Affordable Care Act must go, and that the precedent protecting the ACA doesn't matter," Whitehouse said during day one of Barrett's confirmation hearing. "The big secret to influences behind this unseemly rush see this nominee as a judicial torpedo they are firing at the ACA." Whitehouse said Rhode Islanders are "calling, writing, emailing, tweeting me by the thousands asking me to say 'no' to this nominee mostly because they see as a judicial torpedo aimed at their essential protections." She was widely expected to do so again when the high court reviews Obamacare for the third time. Giving fuel to that argument is a 2017 Notre Dame Law School article that Barrett wrote criticizing past judicial decisions to uphold the ACA.

Source: Fox News October 12, 2020 16:18 UTC