The Devil Wears a Judicial Robe. |
Barrett is a staunchly conservative jurist and considered an early frontrunner.
The 48-year old mother of seven will likely appear with Trump on Saturday and the Senate will immediately begin confirmation hearing and hold a floor vote in late October.
The shameless hypocrisy of the Republicans is once again on full day.
She will be the fifth woman to sit upon the court if confirmed by the Senate. The 53 U.S. Senators will likely confirm the nominee without problems.
The judge is a favorite of social conservatives who, if confirmed, will be the youngest justice on the court and could reshape the nation’s laws for decades.
Trump and McConnell will ram through an inexperience jurist to sit on the Supreme Court. |
Barrett has been a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit since 2017. She taught for 15 years at Notre Dame Law School in Indiana, and before that, clerked for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Civil and human rights groups strongly opposed Barrett’s nomination to her current court seat over her views on a range of issues.
Trump sticks to his white nationalist platform by nominating Amy Coney Barrett as his choice. |
More than two dozen LGBTQ rights groups raised concerns about Barrett wavering on the idea of landmark LGBTQ rights decisions qualifying as “superprecedents” ― decisions so important they should not be overturned. They also note she took a speaking fee from the Alliance Defending Freedom, a nonprofit that has defended forced sterilization for transgender people and been dubbed a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Barrett responded by saying she didn’t know Alliance Defending Freedom is the largest anti-LGBTQ legal advocacy group in the nation. As for abortion rights, she said her personal views on the precedent set by Roe v. Wade would not affect her decisions as a federal judge.
Lindsey Graham is moving forward despite his hypocrisy. |
Like so many of Trump’s nominees to lifetime federal court seats, Barrett is a member of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal organization that has essentially served as a pipeline for many of the president’s court picks. Both of Trump’s other Supreme Court picks, Neil Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, are members of the group.
There’s a clear pattern to these nominees, too: They are young, they are ideological, and they have records of being hostile toward abortion rights, LGBTQ rights and voting rights.
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