Amy Coney Barrett has done 5 paid speaking engagements for Alliance Defending Freedom — an organization the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled a hate group.
Now, she's being asked to answer for her ties to the organization.
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11/ Amy Coney Barrett has tried to distance herself from ADF. During her 2017 appeals court confirmation process, she told Sen. Al Franken she wasn't aware that in accepting an invitation to speak for ADF's Blackstone Legal Fellowship program, she was working with the group.
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12/ During her Supreme Court confirmation proceedings last week, Sen. Patrick Leahy asked Barrett if she knew that ADF had worked for decades to re-criminalize homosexuality. "I am not aware of those efforts, no," she said.https://bit.ly/3lYiCyW
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13/13 Michael Farris, the CEO of ADF, attended Barrett's White House Rose Garden announcement event earlier this month. Neither ADF nor Barrett responded to a request to comment for this article. More from
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argued against marriage equality, employment discrimination protections and transgender bathroom access.