Here are the top moments and highlights so far from Day 2 of Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearings

Trump has suggested that his nominees to the top court would dismantle Obamacare, and said they would overturn Roe v. Wade. Barrett said that she has not discussed any cases with members of the executive branch, including the president, and has made no deals.

“No one ever talked about any case with me, no one on the executive branch side of it,” Barrett said in response to questioning from Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.

“Just as I didn’t make any commitments and was not asked to make any commitments on the executive branch side, I can not make any commitments to this body either,” she said.

Barrett specifically addressed the Nov. 10 case on Obamacare, emphasizing that she had made no guarantee to strike it down.

“Absolutely not,” she said. “I was never asked, and if I had been that would have been a short conversation.”

She said that her past critiques of Supreme Court decisions upholding the ACA had no bearing on the legal questions at issue in the upcoming case, and that she wasn’t hostile to the law.

Barrett also refused to commit to Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., that she would recuse herself from any election disputes.

“He’s counting on you to deliver him the election,” Leahy told her, referring to the president.

Barrett said that under the Supreme Court’s rules, recusal decisions are made in consultation with the full court.

“While it is always the decision of an individual justice, it always happens with the consultation of the full court. So I cannot offer an opinion on recusal without short circuiting that whole process,” she said.

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