Posted on 06/17/2025 2:23:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Americans don’t have time for Barrett to spend years figuring out what kind of justice she wants to be.
What kind of Supreme Court justice is Amy Coney Barrett going to be?
That appeared to be the question a new expose by New York Times hack Jodi Kantor attempted to answer. Published Sunday, the lengthy article features analysis of the Trump appointee’s SCOTUS record thus far, as well as comments from former associates and Court watchers on her jurisprudence and how she approaches legal questions.
The goal, as it seems, is to decipher whether the Catholic mother of seven will follow in the originalist philosophy of her old boss (former Justice Antonin Scalia) or go the way of disappointing Republican appointees such as former Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and David Souter.
But the answer isn’t clear cut — at least, not yet.
To be sure, Barrett’s SCOTUS tenure has not been what many outside Court observers were expecting. Despite having clerked for Scalia and previously proclaimed to share his jurisprudence, the Trump appointee has become a bit of a wild card on key issues making their way to the high court.
A Times analysis of her SCOTUS career purports to show that Barrett’s inclination to vote with the majority on what the outlet classifies as “conservative decisions” has declined since the Court’s 2021-2022 term, while her penchant for signing onto so-called “liberal decisions” has risen over the same time frame. The Times’ review of Barrett’s record also seems to indicate that her “share of conservative votes” has declined since the 2021-2022 term, slightly more than that of Chief Justice...
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
I think she is very strongly influenced by Roberts.
I don’t think we’re very sure of what level I.Q. we are dealing with here.
“I think she is very strongly influenced by Roberts.”
Agreed.
She’s a feminist libtard and an emotion driven activist.
The law school system is run by leftists to produce leftist lawyers and judges.
“ She’s a feminist libtard and an emotion driven activist.”
Yes. She’s a Trojan horse serving a lifetime appointment.
I have asked FReepers to post a short list of “disappointing” majority or dissenting decisions attributed to Barrett, and I’ve never gotten a solid response.
There should be a lemon law for judges, as long as the nominating president is still in power.
Do your own research. But start with her very first act and a couple of others. A week after she was sworn in, she recused herself from the Pennsylvania mail in ballot case in 2020.... it tied 4-4 and Pennsylvania stuffed the ballot box.
In November 2021, Barrett voted with the majority in a 6–3 decision to reject an appeal from Mercy San Juan Medical Center, a hospital affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church, which had sought to deny a hysterectomy to a transgender patient on religious grounds.[172] The Court’s decision not to hear the case left in place a lower court ruling in favor of the transgender patient
In November 2023, Barrett voted with the 6–3 majority to decline to hear an appeal of a decision that upheld Washington’s ban on conversion therapy for minors, allowing the law to stand; Kavanaugh, Thomas, and Alito dissented.
Barrett wrote a concurring opinion in Does v. Mills, a case challenging Maine’s vaccine requirement for health care workers. She was in the majority in the 6–3 decision to deny a stay of the vaccine requirement, explaining that the case had not been fully briefed or argued
Jan 23, 2024 — “Amy Coney Barrett voted in favor of allowing Biden’s federal border agents to dismantle razor fencing set up by Texas agents to stop
Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Monday sided with Chief Justice John Roberts and the U.S. Supreme Court’s three liberal justices in refusing the Trump administration’s request to halt a federal judge’s order requiring the government to pay out nearly $2 billion in foreign aid.
April 2025...The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a major victory to President Trump on Monday, allowing the administration to continue deporting what it says are Venezuelan gang members. The vote was 5-to-4, with conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett joining the three liberals in dissent.
The list is long... she’s worthless. And we’ll have 40 more years of her radfem “thinking”.
She’s not who she advertised she was.
She’s lib Jim.
she’s a dope
Three names. Attended notre dame and Boston U. I don’t know who her clerks are but if have similar histories, no need to wonder.
It’s too bad, I really thought she’d be a great justice. Why don’t libs ever have this problem?
Bingo.
“She’s a feminist libtard and an emotion driven activist.”
Yes. She always has been. That oh-so-precious DEI designer family she concocted to further her career was a dead giveaway. Then the three names. Shopping at Whole Foods. Her snooty demeanor.
I expect she was recommended by The Federalist Society.
At least she’s slightly better than Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.
ACB has voted right on about the last six cases, plus
*abortion
*affirmative action
*Trump immunity
*guns
*SEC
*EPA
*Trump ballot access
*private employer vax mandate overturned
*Chevron
Those alone should be sufficient to last a lifetime.
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