“Three words: Sandra Day O’Connor”
Several words: Earl Warren, Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter. There have been significantly more men turn on us. Barrett is at least an Originalist and a former clerk of Scalia’s. That’s a lot better than some of the men on Trump’s list for sure.
“There have been significantly more men turn on us.”
The simple fact is that we need someone who has a strong record of being an originalist, someone who is not likely to turn their method of analyzing a case in front of them on its head, because they are grounded. I very firmly believe that Trump should pick someone who is very firmly grounded as being pro-Second Amendment, because everything else originalist flows from that. There is no more fundamental idea in the Constitution than that an individual’s liberties are to be protected, and the Second Amendment is the very heart of that issue. Someone able to withstand the attacks of the Left on that issue will also be able to withstand the attacks of the Left, including their fellow justices, on any other issue as well.