Over 50 Law Professors Pen Letter to Senate Judiciary in Support of Amy Coney Barrett’s Confirmation

National Review ^ | October 12, 2020 | MAIREAD MCARDLE

[george76]

A group of more than 50 law professors sent a letter Friday to the Senate Judiciary Committee expressing their support for Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation to the Supreme Court and calling her qualifications “stellar.”

In a letter to Chairman Lindsey Graham and ranking Democratic member Dianne Feinstein, obtained by National Review, the 53 law signatories identified themselves as a “diverse” group representing many fields and perspectives and holding “widely differing views about the President and the timing of this nomination.”

“We share the belief, however, that Judge Barrett is exceptionally well qualified to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States, and we urge the Senate to confirm her as an Associate Justice,” the group wrote.

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Barrett has served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since she was appointed by Trump in 2017. The 48-year-old Notre Dame law professor clerked for late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and is a conservative Catholic mother of seven.

“Although we have differing perspectives on the methods and conclusions in her scholarship, we all agree that her contributions are rigorous, fair-minded, respectful, and constructive,” the professors said in their letter. “Her work demonstrates a thorough understanding of the issues and challenges that federal courts confront.”

The group includes several professors from Ivy League schools including Harvard University, Columbia Law School, and Yale Law School, as well as professors from the University of San Diego, Notre Dame Law School, George Washington University Law School, Stanford Law School, and others.

Judge Barrett has outstanding credentials for this position,” the law professors said in their letter to Graham and Feinstein, adding that, “as a legal scholar, Judge Barrett has distinguished herself as an expert in procedure, interpretation, federal courts, and constitutional law.”

[mikelets456]

I saw this on the news-—Oh wait, never mind....CNN stated she killed 50 law professors and didn’t denounce the KKK.

[vigilante2]

Are these all liberal professors?

[cdcdawg]

Her qualifications are pretty much unquestionable, particularly by anyone who voted to confirm Kagan.

[george76]

Judge Barrett has more judging experience than Kagan who had ZERO.. Elena Kagan was the most unqualified nominee in the history of the Supreme Court?

[StAnDeliver]

There is NO WAY 50 law professors from that base of universities mentioned would endorse ACB and expect Roe to be overturned or even sent back to the States.

Although I would like to argue that case just the same, and ask the Justices this direct question:

"Everyone likes to say Roe is "settled law", so what was the "settled law" before Roe?"

"What was the stare decisis this Supreme Court ably defended for a hundred years BEFORE Roe? What was so objectionable about the defense of human life that 1973 changed?"

"This Court protected human life twice as long as it has rejected it since. Can YOU tell ME that, your honor? Can YOU explain that to US?"

[ConservativeDude]

if someone can post the list, I might be able to shed some light....but I can’t find the list :(

[libertylover]

I’m surprised they could 50 professors that brave. How many will still have jobs next week?