What to Know About Amy Coney Barrett's Views

NYT ^ | Sept 26, 2020 | Adam Liptak

[where's_the_Outrage?]

WASHINGTON — Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court, has compiled an almost uniformly conservative voting record in cases touching on abortion, gun rights, discrimination and immigration. If she is confirmed, she would move the court slightly but firmly to the right, making compromise less likely and putting at risk the right to abortion established in Roe v. Wade.

Judge Barrett’s judicial opinions, based on a substantial sample of the hundreds of cases that she has considered in her three years on the federal appeals court in Chicago, are marked by care, clarity and a commitment to the interpretive methods used by Justice Antonin Scalia, the giant of conservative jurisprudence for whom she worked as a law clerk from 1998 to 1999.

[caww]

Negative article....we can do better than this.

[Jane Long]

Oh, goody.

I’ve been anxiously awaiting to see what NYSlimes take is on ACBs views.

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NOT.

[11th_VA]

Off topic : the next few weeks/months will determine which way this country goes. We’ve reached a fork in the road - it’s either left or right ...

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Oh, it will get nastier… you can bet on it.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

If she is confirmed, she would move the court slightly but firmly to the right

If (and it's a big if, given the inconsistency of "conservative" SC jurists over the last 50 years) she votes consistently as a conservative, Barrett would eliminate John Roberts' role as swing vote and finally, at long last, cement a conservative majority on the court.

Given the Reagan, Bush I and Bush II presidencies, conservatives should have been able to count on a solid majority for decades, but O'Connor, Souter, Kennedy and now Roberts doomed that effort. Conservatives have done their job supporting these presidents and their SC choices only to be let down and betrayed again and again. Barrett better be worth the support. Same goes for Gorsuch and Kavanaugh - given what they went through and what conservatives had to go through in support of them, we need much better from them than Gorsuch's transgender legislation-from-the-bench.

[Alberta's Child]

I’ve long passed the point where I have any confidence in GOP Supreme Court nominees.

To me, the ACB nomination is more about politics than anything else — meaning, how badly will the Democrats damage themselves by attacking her?

That’s it.

[Fungi]

Pure unadulterated crap from the number one crap purveyor. Enough from the Walter Duranty “news source”.

[ModelBreaker]

“...she would move the court slightly but firmly to the right...”

They have to say this. Otherwise, they would be admitting that Ginsberg was a far left radical.

[FoxInSocks]

making compromise less likely

I don't think the justices are supposed to debate and "compromise." They just have to apply the law.

[Drew68]

Negative article....we can do better than this.

Not at all.

The lamentations of the New York Times is music to my ears.

[Deepeasttx]

>>If she is confirmed, she would move the court slightly but firmly to the right,<<

And all these years, the rats stood firm and forced the conservatives to the left. So what’s the problem?

[T Ruth]

The New York Times Has Been Ridiculous for a Long Time

[Herakles]

If she is good enough for DJT she is good enough for me!

Trump is the most successful president since Washington.

[daniel1212]

The NYT argument is basically that Barrett will judge more like the judge Ginsburg replaced, Byron White. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3888021/posts

[ronnie raygun]

Shes the right choice

[cdpap]

They will never learn. Just as rush said they could vote for her without any hearings. She just had hearings for her appt to the federal judgeship she has now. The hearings were held in front of the same senate panel and voted on by whole senate. They probably could have deemed her already advised and consented to if they wanted to(or had the balls to).

[abclily]

abortion = killing innocent humans

This is a constitutional right?

[mad_as_he$$]

Yup. Time will tell. Smucky opened for the lead last bight.

[Bratch]

Reflections on Judging: A Conversation with Amy Coney Barrett

In depth discussion about her judicial philosophy. She's an originalist.