WASHINGTON – Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett invoked Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at her Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday in refusing to discuss her view of gay rights and the Constitution.“Justice Ginsburg with her characteristic pithiness used this to describe how a nominee should comport herself at a hearing.
No hints, no previews, no forecasts. That had been the practice of nominees before her. But everybody calls it the Ginsburg rule because she stated it so concisely,” Barrett said of the woman whose seat she would take if confirmed.It’s become a standard response by Republican high court nominees to recite Ginsburg's words from her own confirmation hearing.Ginsburg, who died last month, did utter those words 27 years ago,.