Posted on 06/30/2024 5:27:14 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — Conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett appeared to lose patience last week with the right-wing narrative that the Biden administration had unlawfully coerced social media companies to remove politically charged content.
In authoring the Supreme Court’s ruling that threw out a lawsuit brought by Republican-led states and several disgruntled social media users, Barrett took aim at the flimsy nature of the claims, the lower courts that indulged them — and several of her conservative colleagues.
While Barrett forensically pointed out how the plaintiffs had failed to substantiate their allegations that content moderation decisions were unlawfully influenced by the Biden administration and criticized a federal judge for reaching conclusions that were “clearly erroneous,” fellow conservative Justice Samuel Alito appeared to view the case through a more ideological lens.
He wrote a dissenting opinion joined by two other conservatives, Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Neil Gorsuch, in which he credited the claims made by the plaintiffs and concluded that the Biden administration’s actions were “blatantly unconstitutional.”
Barrett sniped back at Alito in a series of lengthy footnotes, including one in which she said that in an effort to reach the merits of the case he “draws links” between government conduct and content moderation decisions that the plaintiffs themselves did not make.
The ruling and several other recent cases illustrate how Barrett — one of former President Donald Trump’s three appointees to the nine-justice court — is at times unwilling to indulge the more extreme arguments that reach the court. She joined the court at a tumultuous time, replacing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg following the liberal icon's death in September 2020 as Republicans rushed to fill the seat just weeks before Trump’s election loss.
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She must be blind and deaf then.
The leftist judges never depart from the script. Our side....well, it’s a crap shoot.
She is an establishment shill who swore loyalty to both sides in order to get the job.
Another wishy washy female judge who is an embarrassment to women and that being from a woman who wants females off of the Supreme Court. They inevitably end up being disappointments.
Woman
“lose patience last week with the right-wing narrative”
“unwilling to indulge the more extreme arguments”
This commie writer is laying it on thick.
Hopefully Barrett sees this. I wonder if she appreciates and her bedfellows’ narrative?
Barrett was a problematic appointee. She has been a helpful vote on many issues but is undependable. Barrett may have been the best choice available at the time and perhaps she will move away from some questionable positions given time.
She (Barrett) is at best, another Sandra Day O’Connor.
But I suspect she is another David Souter.
She responds to strong positions in a unquely female manner, by deferring to the center.
*She must be blind and deaf then.*
All art is political. The SCOTUS doesn’t escape.
That was my first reply and it usually holds true the emotive nature of the once gentler sex
But there was that black woman bandied about by the right as a potential nominee years ago
But the media and uniparty canned that notion
Anyone recall her?
She seemed bonafide Scalia Thomas and Alito ish
Funny how Gorsuch seems the star of the new three
I would have figured Barrett would have been
Btw with Catholics and Jews dominating the court how about a Church or Assembly of God sort for once
You know the wife wears no make up, denim skirts to their ankles, blouse buttoned up and hair uncut braided back(it’s a southern sect they might not have up north)
Likely a dependable social righty justice then lol
Souter and Roberts were not females and they were disappointments too. It goes deeper than gender.
I despised her participation in a system that gave her conscience over to others. That is no mindset for a Supreme Court justice.
Ah, a fence sitter. Runs neither hot nor cold.
Those are worse than an enemy, in my opinion.
Why doesn’t NBC write this story?
She cemented a liberal Supreme Court minority, but a ‘cautious’ Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson sometimes resists the far-left flank. She voted with Alito!
Barrett is a lovely woman who smiles a lot.
I prefer Justice Thomas in every way.
As a former law school professor, Barrett is sensitive to what the academic community thinks. That makes her vulnerable to reputational pressure from Leftists.
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