Final Day Of Questioning Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett faces a final day of questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee as Republicans set the stage for a final confirmation vote in two weeks. NBC's Susan McGinnis reports from Washington, DC.

(NBC News) — As day three of confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee Amy Coney Barrett began, the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee began framing the confirmation as a done deal.

Republicans are hoping to wrap up the hearing tomorrow and get her confirmed in less than two weeks, while Democrats are trying one last time to pin the judge down on important questions like where she stands on The Affordable Care Act.

The topics on the final day again ranged from gun and voting and LGBTQ rights, to race and abortion. She was also asked where she might stand if faced with any cases involving the President who nominated her.

Like many nominees before her Judge Barrett proclaimed her judicial independence, “because it would be opining on an open question when I haven’t gone through the judicial process to decide it’s not one on which I can offer a view.”

The hearings will not finish until tomorrow, but the committee is already drawing up the plans to put Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to a vote.

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