MAGA rages as Trump judge goes 'squishy' before upcoming decisions
ABC News reports Justice Amy Coney Barrett is either not the judge President Donald Trump thought she was or SCOTUS is growing more conservative around her.
Trump appointed Barrett to the Supreme Court to replace Justice Ruther Bader Ginsburg weeks before the 2020 election, outraging liberals who attacked Barrett as a right-wing ideologue.
She immediately did conservatives proud by joining the court’s conservative majority in destroying Roe v. Wade and ending affirmative action. She’s also shown disdain for Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, arguing that “those who want same-sex marriage … have every right to lobby in state legislatures to make that happen.”
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However, she also voted to reject Trump's bid to delay sentencing for his New York felony conviction ahead of the inauguration, and later, voted to force the administration to pay out nearly $2 billion in foreign aid money that Trump froze. She also sided with liberal dissenters who opposed the gutting of the Clean Water Act to benefit polluters. This, says ABC News, makes Barrett a wild card “as the court prepares to hand down its most consequential rulings of the year by the end of June.”
"Justice Barrett has emerged as the center figure, the swing justice, on the current Roberts Court. … The reason she's ended up at the center of this court is that the arch-conservatives are so reactionary, so far to the right," Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman told ABC News, adding that, "she's not just following the partisan political winds.”
Just recently, ABC News reports Barrett signed on to an historic opinion granting Trump sweeping immunity from criminal charges for his role in the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election, but she broke with conservative justices to insist the president could still be prosecuted later. She also recused herself from a court battle over the nation’s first religious charter school, giving liberal school opponents the win of a 4-4 tie.
MAGA loyalists have recently labeled her a "DEI judge", according to ABC News, and conservative lawyer and Trump ally Mike Davis called her a "rattled law professor with her head up her a--." Former Fox anchor and commentator Megyn Kelly said she worries Barrett is "a little squishy."
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ABC News reports the nation may get to judge for themselves when the U.S. Supreme Court mulls Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship and injunctions to block it, among other pivotal cases.
Read the full ABC News report at this link.
