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Originally Posted by flylock shox

The Barrett nomination is more interesting than I would have expected, in that she's not an overt schill as I would have expected.

In fact, I'm having a hard time finding objective evidence to suggest she's far-right or extremist at all. I have to assume she's been vetted at least to the extent of confirming she'd overturn Roe, and Trump's M.O. would have been to ask (tell) her directly that he expects loyalty in exchange for nominating her - so one assumes that, for those reasons, she's a dangerous person to have on the court.

But a lot of the articles I'm reading about her - including ones reviewing her judicial decisions - really fail to make a compelling case.

I found this article really telling. Won't stop all the fear-mongering about her religion or supposed racist views because she adopted 2 black children. I mean how dare she!

Like many other liberals, I’m devastated by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, which opened the way for President Donald Trump to nominate a third Supreme Court justice in his first term. And I’m revolted by the hypocrisy of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s willingness to confirm Trump’s nominee after refusing to even allow a vote on Judge Merrick Garland.

Yet these political judgments need to be distinguished from a separate question: what to think about Judge Amy Coney Barrett, whom Trump has told associates he plans to nominate. And here I want to be extremely clear. Regardless of what you or I may think of the circumstances of this nomination, Barrett is highly qualified to serve on the Supreme Court.

I disagree with much of her judicial philosophy and expect to disagree with many, maybe even most of her future votes and opinions. Yet despite this disagreement, I know her to be a brilliant and conscientious lawyer who will analyze and decide cases in good faith, applying the jurisprudential principles to which she is committed. Those are the basic criteria for being a good justice. Barrett meets and exceeds them.

I got to know Barrett more than 20 years ago when we clerked at the Supreme Court during the 1998-99 term. Of the thirty-some clerks that year, all of whom had graduated at the top of their law school classes and done prestigious appellate clerkships before coming to work at the court, Barrett stood out. Measured subjectively and unscientifically by pure legal acumen, she was one of the two strongest lawyers. The other was Jenny Martinez, now dean of the Stanford Law School.

https://www.vox.com/21456044/amy-con...t-roe-abortion

Also.

However, Barrett has also said several times that she believes the Supreme Court will not overturn Roe.

“I don’t think the core case, Roe’s core holding that women have a right to an abortion, I don’t think that would change,” she said in a 2016 appearance at Jacksonville University. “But I think the question of whether people can get very late-term abortions, you know, how many restrictions can be put on clinics, I think that will change.”

https://www.vox.com/21456044/amy-con...t-roe-abortion