Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett says she doesn\u2019t consider the Roe v. Wade decision that allowed abortion on demand a \u201csuper-precedent\u201d that can\u2019t be overturned.<\/p>\n
Judge Barrett said Roe is not in same category as the Supreme Court\u2019s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which declared segregated public schools unconstitutional because there is still a massive debate about whether Roe is legitimate.<\/p>\n
Barrett says no one talks about overturning the Brown decision but explained that significant disagreement over it \u201cindicates Roe doesn\u2019t fall in that category.\u201d She says it\u2019s \u201cnot a case that\u2019s universally accepted.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWell people use super precedent differently. The way that it\u2019s used in the scholarship and the way that I was using it in the article the that you\u2019re reading from was to define cases that are so well settled that no political actors and no people seriously push for their overruling and I\u2019m answering a lot of questions about Roe, which I think indicates that Roe doesn\u2019t fall in that category,\u201d Barrett said.<\/p>\n