Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett repeatedly dodged questions about the scientific reality of climate change during her Senate confirmation hearing last week, and questions asked away from live cameras offered little more clarity.


“Coney Barrett’s corporate activism and bent are well-documented, but her nonanswers on these serious conflicts of interest involving one [of] the largest big oil corporations in the world and one of their dirty lobby associations tell us everything we need to know about her climate denial,” Jayson O’Neill, a spokesperson for the watchdog group Accountable.US, told HuffPost in an email. “And, it’s clearly disqualifying.”

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