Senator Amy Klobuchar
Senator Amy Klobuchar at today’s start of confirmation hearings for Neil Gorsuch said she has questions about how President Trump’s nominee for U-S Supreme Court would approach his work. Klobuchar pointed to the Hobby Lobby case, about a business not covering contraceptives in employee insurance plans. She says in that opinion, Gorsuch “found that corporations were legal persons and could exercise their own religious beliefs. This ruling leaves open the troubling argument that corporations have a right to free speech equal to that of citizens.” Klobuchar says Gorsuch has been “rightfully praised” for impressive academic credentials and experience, but she wants to know how his decisions would “reflect a respect for precedent and the law and how they would affect all Americans.”