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To: ClearCase_guy
A pro-life originalist who has recently been confirmed by the senate.

Anything you can point to that points out she is an “originalist?” I’m not doubting it, I want to learn more about her

IMHO, the focus on abortion is good, but its much more important to be an originalist first. After all, it was the Warren Court’s “penumbras and emanations” which paved the way for not only nation-wide abortion, but also gay-marriage, and all other kinds of court-enforced leftist social-engineering.

22 posted on 09/22/2020 9:01:05 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88
Wikipedia -- first sentences:

Amy Vivian Coney Barrett (born January 28, 1972)[1][2] is an American lawyer, jurist, and former academic who serves as a circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Barrett considers herself a public-meaning originalist; her judicial philosophy has been likened to that of her mentor and former boss, Antonin Scalia.[3] Barrett's scholarship focuses on originalism, statutory interpretation, and stare decisis.[4]

29 posted on 09/22/2020 9:03:47 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: PGR88

I’m no lawyer, but I think it’s highly interesting that she is interested in both originalism and stare decisis. I think there are some “precedents” which should be ignored. Perhaps she would agree with that, if she is an originalist. She may see her way to undoing some damage.


35 posted on 09/22/2020 9:07:26 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: PGR88
Goto 27:52 to get a feel for what kind of a Judge she would be
76 posted on 09/22/2020 9:59:41 AM PDT by jpsb
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