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Janice Rogers Brown
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’s a woke, uppity lib. How could Trump not see that? Mike Davis’ descriptions of her always are entertaining.
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Janice Rogers Brown
At her confirmation, she stated she would listen to each argument carefully when making her decision. I think some of the others are purely ideological.
She’s an Irish bimbo. What a waste.
Any conehead Barrett. Government using the private sector for full in censorship was too tough of a case for her to figure out. We have to suffer this feminist fool for several decades to come now.
Picked because of her sex, this is what you get.
Puff piece that telegraphs to her that the exhalted spot of a maverick Justice and invites to DC cocktail parties and more fawning pieces are hers to take if she moves leftwards.
The left is in full civil war and this is just an attempt to spread the fire to our side.
Her business should be - THE LAW/ THE CONSTITUTION,
-not trying to make things politically even..
“Btw with Catholics and Jews dominating the court how about a Church or Assembly of God sort for once”
God Forbid that a Protestant be on the court our ancestors set up
The Horror, yuh know
Thats her
Thanks
They’re grooming her to join the dark side.
Far too many women have this ‘thing’ about Trump, as they feel personally threatened by him. Personally, my wife and I would offer him a beer if he showed at my door - but these women would run straight into the teeth of an alligator to get away from Trump.
I suspect that may have played into things here, at least subconsciously here, as this vote was perfectly split on gender lines.
Bingo...NO chix in the judiciary...at ANY level. No foreign-born (male or female), either.
Barrett is slowly turning left. Leftism is like dementia because it never gets better. It only gets worse over time. The “Souter” of the new SCOTUS age.
The Weak Link
Robert Barnes predicted this exact thing.
Fixed it for ya.
She cemented a largely rudderless, unreliable court.
But fortunately she comes through on a few things still—as do all the supposed conservatives outside Thomas and Alito.
Thomas is making the most he can with the colleagues he has.
She’s a WEAK SISTER! VERY DISAPPOINTING!
Remember the “maverick” John McCain? This word is usually code for being a leftist tool.
Leftists are never celebrated for being mavericks or bucking the party line.
She’s only in her early 50’s too. She’s giving off John Paul Stevens vibes.
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