evidence: The Senate Judiciary Committee wrapped up hearings Thursday on the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court and set a panel vote for Oct. 22, with final confirmation expected before the Nov. 3 election. Legal experts say the addition of President Donald Trump’s conservative nominee will move the court farther right than it has been in decades. Barrett has said her judicial philosophy involves an impersonal focus on the language of the Constitution and intent of the framers. She assured senators during the hearings that she would be guided by that approach and not her own personal beliefs, despite having taken public positions on some hotly disputed issues, most notably her opposition to abortion rights and questioning of the Affordable Care Act. The Gazette interviewed Michael Klarman, an authority on constitutional law and history and Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, about the limits of judicial philosophy and prospect of having a heavy conservative majority on the court.