Democratic strategy: Barrett confirmation could end Obamacare

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Senate Democrats, increasingly resigned to the likely confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, are making Obamacare’s fate central to their messaging in the confirmation hearings this week.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who is the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Barrett would take a seat on the high court just weeks before the expected Nov. 10 hearing of a case testing the legality of the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare.

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