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Amy Coney Barrett: Views, Opinions and Experience
rfenst Offline
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A closer look at Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court seat vacated after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death

Here is a look at Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died this month.

Who is Judge Barrett?
Judge Barrett, 48 years old, was nominated by Mr. Trump to the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in May 2017 and confirmed by the Senate that October in a 55-43 vote.

Judge Barrett had been a finalist when Mr. Trump selected Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court in 2018. She interviewed with the president and impressed him and his advisers. But she also had been on the appellate bench less than a year after 15 years teaching law. That short experience, and the prospect that she could spark a particularly bitter confirmation fight over abortion rights in a closely divided Senate, were among factors the White House considered at the time, The Wall Street Journal reported.

As an appeals-court judge, Judge Barrett has written opinions on issues including sentencing for drug-overdose death convictions, the right to criminal counsel and federal jurisdiction over arbitration proceedings.

Where is Judge Barrett from?
The eldest of seven children, she grew up in the neighborhood of Old Metairie just outside New Orleans, where her family of French ancestry was rooted for generations. Her father worked as a lawyer for the offshore oil-and-gas industry, and her mother taught high-school French.


Judge Barrett was a law clerk to the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and has written and spoken favorably.
Judge Barrett attended a Roman Catholic, college-preparatory school for girls, the same private high school that educated her sisters, mother, grandmother and aunts. She won a scholarship to Rhodes College, a small liberal-arts college in Memphis, Tenn. She graduated magna **** laude and enrolled at Notre Dame Law School in Indiana.

Judge Barrett has seven children and is married to Jesse M. Barrett, a former federal white-collar prosecutor whom she met at Notre Dame.

What legal experience does Judge Barrett bring?
A Notre Dame Law School graduate, Judge Barrett was a law clerk to the conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in 2016. She practiced law at a Washington, D.C., law firm before returning in 2002 to Notre Dame as a professor of constitutional law and federal courts.

Before her Scalia clerkship, she also served as a law clerk to Judge Laurence Silberman, a well-known conservative in Washington. During law school, she was executive editor of the Notre Dame Law Review and won the school’s highest award for scholarship and achievement.

Has Judge Barrett written opinions that are likely to be discussed during confirmation hearings?
Before she joined the appeals court, Judge Barrett wrote a number of academic articles that are almost certain to raise questions again from senators, on issues including abortion, religion, the law and respect for Supreme Court precedent.

In one 2013 article, then-Professor Barrett voiced support for Supreme Court justices voting to overturn past precedent when they fundamentally disagreed with it.

“I tend to agree with those who say that a justice’s duty is to the Constitution and that it is thus more legitimate for her to enforce her best understanding of the Constitution rather than a precedent she thinks clearly in conflict with it,” she wrote.

Her writings provoked debate when she was nominated for the appeals court, but Judge Barrett nonetheless received support from a bipartisan group of other law professors.

What are her personal beliefs that may come up during the hearings?
Judge Barrett is Roman Catholic, like several of the Supreme Court justices. Her strong religious faith has made her a favorite of social conservatives, who think she could give the Supreme Court a fifth vote to overturn or limit Roe v. Wade, the 1973 precedent that established a constitutional right to end a pregnancy. For those same reasons, she has generated vocal opposition from abortion-rights supporters.

For several years at Notre Dame, then-Professor Barrett was a member of the group University Faculty for Life, a group founded “to promote research, dialogue and publication by faculty who respect the value of human life from conception to natural death.”

Her faith was a subject of discussion in her appellate-court confirmation proceedings. Democratic senators questioned whether her beliefs would improperly influence her. “The dogma lives loudly within you,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) told Judge Barrett. Some Catholics and Republicans criticized Ms. Feinstein, accusing her of imposing a religious test for nominees.

The senators asked Judge Barrett about a law review article she co-wrote in 1998 that argued that Catholic judges are “morally precluded” from enforcing the death penalty. At the hearing, Judge Barrett said she believed judges shouldn’t put their personal views above the law.

Judge Barrett is also a member of the South Bend, Ind., branch of a faith group called People of Praise. The group describes itself as a charismatic Christian community that includes Roman Catholics, Pentecostals and people of other denominations, with about 1,700 members in 22 cities across the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean.

The group focuses on shared community life among Christians regardless of denomination. Members often meet in small groups and larger prayer meetings, and share meals and attend each other’s baptisms, weddings and funerals, according to its website. “We teach that People of Praise members should always follow their consciences, as formed by the light of reason, and by the experience and the teachings of their churches,” the group’s website says.

People of Praise has been criticized for its belief that wives are supposed to defer on family matters to their husbands, who are heads of the household.

Members of the group say that criticism is mistaken and that women from the group hold many important roles both within People of Praise and in their careers.

Has Judge Barrett expressed any opinions on how Supreme Court justices should perform their duties?
Judge Barrett has written and spoken favorably of Justice Scalia and his close attention to the texts of statutes as written and support for originalism, or interpreting the Constitution according to its original meaning.

She also has voiced admiration for other justices, including Justice Elena Kagan, a member of the court’s liberal bloc, “for the way in which she is able to bring the knowledge and skill she acquired as an academic to the practical resolution of disputes,” she said in written answers to the Senate in 2017.

Since joining the Seventh Circuit, Judge Barrett has offered support for comments by Chief Justice John Roberts, who pushed back against Mr. Trump in 2018 after the president, responding to an immigration ruling his administration lost, suggested the judge in that case was an Obama partisan.

“The chief justice, I think, articulated what members of the judiciary feel,” Judge Barrett said in 2019. “The chief justice responded and pushed back and said, ‘You know, we don’t have Obama judges.’”

WSJ
opelmanta1900 Offline
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7 kids is a lot...
BuckyB93 Offline
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Yeah, but did Drafter see her tits?
RayR Offline
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“I tend to agree with those who say that a justice’s duty is to the Constitution and that it is thus more legitimate for her to enforce her best understanding of the Constitution rather than a precedent she thinks clearly in conflict with it,” she wrote

That'll get the progressives all in a tizzy right there, ruling by adhering to the Constitution instead of rubber stamping precedents that conflicts with it, that's blasphemous to their sectarian belief in ruling by feelings. .
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Regardless of her views, she was picked.
She definitely has the right stuff on her resume.
I don't care she is Catholic or of another Christian denomination.
She is in for a needless brawling in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

DrMaddVibe Offline
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rfenst wrote:
Regardless of her views, she was picked.
She definitely has the right stuff on her resume.
I don't care she is Catholic or of another Christian denomination.
She is in for a needless brawling in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.




And she will be wearing the robe!
ZRX1200 Offline
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She’s not a lefty so she will be attacked horrendously.
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rfenst wrote:
Regardless of her views, she was picked.
She definitely has the right stuff on her resume.
I don't care she is Catholic or of another Christian denomination.
She is in for a needless brawling in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.



Mostly for optics. The R's let the D's do their smear. Now let's vote.
RayR Offline
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She has a moral compass
Worst yet, they say she has some regard for the original intent of the Constitution and not upholding past bad precedents.
On both counts that makes her forever illegitimate in the eyes of the Democratic elites.
Smooth light Offline
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TDS strikes again!
HockeyDad Offline
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I’m looking forward to the hearing where we can find out who she raped.
MACS Offline
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HockeyDad wrote:
I’m looking forward to the hearing where we can find out who she raped.


I shall bottle my outrage and release it at the appropriate moment, sir.
DrMaddVibe Offline
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RayR wrote:
She has a moral compass
Worst yet, they say she has some regard for the original intent of the Constitution and not upholding past bad precedents.
On both counts that makes her forever illegitimate in the eyes of the Democratic elites.



And for the trifecta....she worked for Judge Scalia!!!!

The horror....the horror....the horror.

Sarcasm
rfenst Offline
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DrMaddVibe wrote:
And for the trifecta....she worked for Judge Scalia!!!!

The horror....the horror....the horror.

Sarcasm

That's a plus in my column. Her reputation includes that all the other SCOTUS Clerks would go to her first for a simple explanation whenever something incomprehensive or new arose. That speaks loud to me as a lawyer. She was the creme de la creme of the creme de la creme, so to speak
Smooth light Offline
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Tell that to the judge in the Flynn case.
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