Posted on 04/08/2025 11:07:21 AM PDT by Signalman
One of President Donald Trump’s picks for the U.S. Supreme Court turned on him Monday, siding with liberal justices in a bid to constrain his ability to deport illegal immigrants suspected by the administration of being affiliated with violent South American gangs.
MAGA conservatives are incensed with Justice Amy Coney Barrett, whom the president nominated and was confirmed for her role during his first administration. Barrett briefly became a right-wing celebrity after she held up her blank notebook during a U.S. Senate confirmation hearing to show that she brought no prepared talking points with her.
Now, she is under fire after conservative commentators online singled her out for attempting to limit President Trump’s ability to deport illegal immigrants under a wartime powers law known as the Alien Enemies Act. Barrett sided with the court’s three liberal justices in a dissent, written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, stating that the administration’s conduct “poses an extraordinary threat to the rule of law.”
A majority of the justices overturned a lower court’s ruling temporarily halting U.S. flights deporting illegal immigrants to mega-prisons in El Salvador and countries of origin, though the freedom to resume movements comes with new restrictions.
Going forward, all deportees must be afforded their due process, and the ruling leaves the door open to future legal challenges if filed in Texas, where plaintiffs were being held, rather than an improper venue like in the case before the high court.
Rogan O’Handley, known as DC_Draino, wrote about Barrett, “While this Supreme Court victory for Trump allowing him to deport cartels is huge, it was only a 5-4 decision. Guess who joined the 3 liberal Justices to keep cartels here in America? Amy Coney Barrett.”
Catturd, another MAGA influencer who boasts 3.6 million followers on the platform, agreed.
“There’s nobody I have less respect for in the entire country besides Dr. Fauci than Amy Commie Barrett – Trump appointed her and gave her her dream job and complimented her and praised her – and she’s been an ungrateful, backstabbing POS since day one. She got a million dollar Liberal book deal within weeks and her whole goal in Life is to be praised by The New York Times,” they wrote, Newsweek reported.
The post added: “Weak, coward, sellout, fraud. She’s everything that’s wrong with this country. She’s an Absolute disgusting fraud.”
Other supporters of deportation proceedings noted that it was only the women on the court who opposed them.
“All the men on the Court voted the law. All the women, including Amy Coney Barrett, voted their feelings,” wrote conservative commentator Jeff Younger.
Although Barrett only sided with parts of Sotomayor’s dissent, glaring passages offer a window into her opposition to boundless deportations.
“If the District Court were to resolve the question in plaintiffs’ favor, the Government could have appealed to this Court in the ordinary course, and we could have decided it after thorough briefing and oral argument,” Sotomayor wrote in a passage co-signed by Barrett.
“In its rush to decide the issue now, the Court halts the lower court’s work and forces us to decide the matter after mere days of deliberation and without adequate time to weigh the parties’ arguments or the full record of the District Court’s proceedings.”
It’s as if she’s practicing DEI “law” joining her fellow women justices.
Again, much overblown. She voted right on the vast majority of cases, and on almost ALL the big ones:
*Braun (guns)
*Dobbs (abortion)
*Affirmative action ending
*SEC
*EPA (both greatly curtailed gubment’s ability to regulate/restrain business
*Chevron defernce
*Trump on the state ballots
*Immunity
*Now the one today.
She’sprobably batting over 70%, which is far better than Souter or Kennedy and in the big cases, closer to 90%.
What a disappointment she is. She turned out to be a DIE hire.
Good post; thanks for the information.
Turning against Trump = making inexplicable, seemingly politicized decisions contrary to constitutional law to support law fare by Trump opposition against the policies and campaign promises that Trump ran on and won with a landslide level mandate to implement. .
If the opportunity arises DJT, please, no more women on the court.
ACB is shaping up to be the next David Souter. Very disappointing.
Eve + Serpent= ☢️
Probably her Catholic/Christian background; some Christians feel that we should open our doors to foreigners seeking a better life. But there is a legal pathway for that, and no matter how sorry we are for the poor and disadvantaged around the world, we can’t take them all, and if we helped everyone, we’d end up not being able to help anyone. Besides, A large number of those sneaking in are criminals.
Are you suggesting that a MAGA conservative female justice cannot be found?
No she doesn't. The left screams about rulings they dislike and reaping whirlwinds. They want to pack the court with more members to favor them.
The right accepts as a female, she will make some decisions emotionally. They dislike it, but are not “furious “
Who protests at judge's homes? Not the right.
Disappointed does not equal fury.
Barrett should be hounded by protesters shouting “Resign! Resign!” and “Liar!” everywhere she goes. If she is going to betray our Constitution, she should hear the protests of those who supported her.
To some, her overall record doesn’t matter. To those people, if a judge has ever deviated from the approved conservative view of an issue, that judge is thereafter considered worthless. That judge is branded as no better than any of the liberals.
On Free Republic, the only Supreme Court justices who are liked by all are Thomas and Alito. All of the others have deviated from the strict conservative ruling at one time or another, and thus are considered worthless. By that standard, all of Trump’s nominees are considered worthless by some on this site.
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Oh you know it.
I always enjoy seeing good Propaganda where the truth gets twisted around by 180 degrees!
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She’s not in Kansas anymore. She has kids in local neighborhood schools so she has to play along. Karoline Leavitt is the only true conservative role model currently and from what I hear, Young women love Karoline.Amy is a bowl full of mush.
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