Amy Coney Barrett
 

Amy Coney Barrett signed newspaper ad that called Roe v Wade 'barbaric'

Ad from 2006 called for abortion rights ruling to be overturned

Barrett and husband signed ad by extreme anti-choice group

Judge supported group that said life begins at fertilization

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...urt-roe-v-wade

Religious group scrubs all references to Amy Coney Barrett from its website
People of Praise, a tiny charismatic Catholic organization, admits removing mentions and photos of Trump’s supreme court pick

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...arrett-website

Cancel Culture! :rolleyes:

Barrett's participation in 2006 ad calling for overturn of Roe v. Wade was not included in Senate disclosures
Democrats say she should have revealed the inclusion of her name on a list of signatures supporting the ad sponsor's mission.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...-wade-n1241738

Why did she try to hide this? :rolleyes:

Wait! Are you telling me this Catholic woman is pro-life?!

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/...53/721/9a7.png

Alumni at Barrett's undergrad school sign letter of concern

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wire...ncern-73403626

Video of Lindsey Graham insisting Supreme Court vacancies should never be filled in election years goes viral
South Carolina senator has repeatedly promised not to take up Supreme Court nominees in a president’s last year, including since Donald Trump became president

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...n-b498014.html

F'ing lying weasel.

The Reckless Race to Confirm Amy Coney Barrett Justifies Court Packing
We used to reject court packing as a dangerous game. Now we believe it may be the best way to restore the Court’s legitimacy.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...acking/616607/

Interesting read.

Leader of hate group attended White House Amy Coney Barrett event
Michael Farris leads Alliance Defending Freedom, designated an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ey-barrett-adf

...the company you keep...

What One Scrapped Opinion Might Say About Judge Barrett

https://www.law360.com/articles/1316104

Amy Coney Barrett Is As Cynical As Trump
The SCOTUS nominee has been praised for being kind, but her actions as she tries to secure her seat reveal exactly who she is.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...character.html

My personal concern with her addition to a court losing balance would be a withdrawal of marriage equality to satisfy a fundamentalist religious agenda counter to the first amendment.

Charles Koch’s Big Bet on Barrett
For almost 50 years, the multibillionaire has been pushing for a court unfriendly to regulation of the market. He may be on the brink of victory.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/o...y-barrett.html

Nothing to see here, just another oligarch buying a judge...

With all the ACA being in front of the court mentioned.
If trump and gop had a better option put it forth! Just why the need to get rid without a replacement?

Answer..... not going to!

tRump and the GOP don't care about Americans having health care they just want the insurance companies to run unfettered.

So I have asked republicans just what they have against the ACA?


So far being forced to get insurance. Or something about regulations?


What other arguments do they really have?

For I only see the need for insurance and medical providers to be unencumbered with oversight and regulations. Allowing the unfettered gouging of consumers.


The facts are the cult has had over three years to come up with a plan. A plan that would of replaced the ACA making no need to kill it.

That and the fact that it came from Barack Obama and his administration. Not about race but about not permitting anything good to come from Democrats. There were surveys where respondents were given the details of the ACA and were in favor of it. Once they were told the ACA was what the Republicans had labeled Obamacare, the respondents changed to apposing it

Amy Coney Barrett ruled using the n-word does not make a work environment hostile

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...le/ar-BB19ZDEE

Wow. I can't think on ANY place I've worked over the past 50 years where one wouldn't have been fired for using this epithet. Incredible. She's completely out of touch.

In other words the ideal Republican nominee.

+1!!:o

Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer

Every senior in America and everyone on Medicare needs to know this:

We already knew Judge Barrett is ready to end the ACA and rip health care from millions.

Now she’s refusing to even say that Medicare is constitutional!

Democrats are fighting for the 65 million on Medicare.

10:02 AM · Oct 14, 2020·Twitter Web App

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Wake the hell up, Seniors! Vote Donny and the Repubes out!

Gawd, she's a total dismantle-the-federal-government libertarian. She's liable to think state's rights and the lack of southern states voting invalidate the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment's. Anyone ask her that yet?

This one makes Scalia seem moderate. Keep it up Repubs and we'll have 11 justices. Your choice.

Heather Cox Richardson
October 14, 2020 (Wednesday)

Today began with a breathless story from the tabloid paper the New York Post alleging that, according to Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, had dropped off three laptops for repair in 2019 and had never picked them up again, and that the FBI subpoenaed the hard drives, but before turning them over the repairman had made a copy of the material on them, and he gave it to Giuliani, and it had incriminating material on it….

And yes, it’s as ridiculous as it sounds. Over the course of the day, real journalists have demolished the story, but it is still of note as news because of what its timing might mean.

First of all, the Trump campaign is in trouble. Polls show the president down by significant numbers, and the voters he has been trying to suppress are turning out in droves. Today Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, a Republican, issued a statement saying he “cannot support Donald Trump for President,” and the Biden campaign announced that it raised an eye-popping $383 million in September alone, a historic record which comes on top of the historic record of $364.5 million it set in August. This means Biden has $432 million on hand for the last month of the election. Dumping a story like this Hunter Biden fiction in a tabloid, which has wide reach among low-information voters, is a cheap fix for the Trump campaign. It might shore him up among those who will never see the wide debunking of the story.

Second, though, the timing of the story suggests it was designed to distract from the third and final day of Amy Coney Barrett’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in her hearing for confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court. The hearings have not been going particularly well for the Republicans. They have the votes to confirm her, and confirm her they will, but her insistence that she is an “originalist,” along with her refusal to answer any questions on topics relevant to the present, including on racial prejudice, climate change, voter suppression, and so on, have made her extremism clear.

Democrats have hammered home that putting Barrett on the court at this moment is an extraordinary power grab, and voters seem to agree. Turning attention away from the hearings would be useful for the Republicans when voters are on their way to the polls.

And yet, Republicans are determined to force her appointment through, even though it threatens to delegitimize the Supreme Court.
To what end?

The originalism of scholars like Barrett is an answer to the judges who, in the years after World War Two, interpreted the law to make American democracy live up to its principles, making all Americans equal before the law. With the New Deal in the 1930s, the Democrats under Franklin Delano Roosevelt had set out to level the economic playing field between the wealthy and ordinary Americans. They regulated business, provided a basic social safety net, and promoted infrastructure.

After the war, under Chief Justice Earl Warren, a Republican appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower, the Supreme Court tried to level the social playing field between Americans through the justices' interpretation of the law.

They tried to end segregation through decisions like the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, which prohibited racial segregation in public schools. They protected the rights of accused prisoners to legal counsel, and the right of married couples to use contraception in 1965 (it had previously been illegal). They legalized interracial marriage in 1967. In 1973, they tried to give women control over their own reproduction by legalizing abortion with the Roe v. Wade decision.

The focus of the Supreme Court in these years was not simply on equality before the law. The justices also set out to make the government more responsible to its citizens. It required that electoral districts be roughly equal in population, so that a state could not have one district of a few hundred people with another with a hundred thousand, thus establishing the principle of “one man, one vote.”

These were not partisan decisions, or to the degree they were, they were endorsed primarily by Republicans. The Chief Justices of the Court during these years were Republicans Earl Warren and Warren Burger.

Today’s “originalists” are trying to erase this whole era of legislation and legal decisions. They argue that justices who expanded civil rights and democratic principles were engaging in “judicial activism,” taking away from voters the right to make their own decisions about how society should work. They say that justices in this era, and those like them in the present—people like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who protected women’s equality before the law-- were “legislating from the bench.” They hold tight to the argument that the Constitution is limited by the views of the Founders, and that the government can do nothing that is not explicitly written in that 1787 document.

Their desire to roll back the changes of the modern era serves traditional concepts of society and evangelical religion, of course, but it also serves a radical capitalism. If the government is as limited as they say, it cannot protect the rights of minorities or women. But it also cannot regulate business. It cannot provide a social safety net, or promote infrastructure, things that cost tax dollars and, in the case of infrastructure, take lucrative opportunities from private businesses. In short, under the theory of originalism, the government cannot do anything to rein in corporations or the very wealthy.

As Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), who is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, illustrated in careful detail at the Barrett hearings yesterday, it is no accident that Barrett’s nomination has the support of secret dark money donors. She will be the key vote to having a solid pro-corporate Supreme Court.

The Trump administration has made it clear that it favors private interests over public ones, combatting regulation and welfare programs, as well as calling for private companies to take over public enterprises like the United States Postal Service. But the New Deal government and the rights enshrined by the Warren and Burger courts are popular in America, so it is imperative for today’s radical Republicans that the courts cement their reworking of the country.

Former White House Counsel Don McGahn explained that the Trump administration wants to skew the judiciary to support its economic agenda. “There is a coherent plan here where actually the judicial selection and the deregulatory effort are really the flip side of the same coin,” he said.

The administration has backed pro-corporate judges whose nominations are bolstered by tens of millions of dollars worth of political advertising paid for by dark money. Trump's Supreme Court appointees have joined other Republican justices on the court, where they consistently prop up business interests—such as with the 2010 Citizens United decision allowing unlimited corporate money in elections—and attack voting rights, as in 2013 with the Shelby v. Holder decision gutting the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

In 2014, New York Times journalist Linda Greenhouse wrote that it is “impossible to avoid the conclusion that the Republican-appointed majority is committed to harnessing the Supreme Court to an ideological agenda.”

That ideological agenda has profound implications for our society as we know it, beginning with the Affordable Care Act, which the court is slated to take up on November 10, just a week after the election. But it is not just our healthcare that is at stake. At risk is the whole infrastructure of laws protecting our civil rights, as well as our democracy.

Goodbye civil rights: Amy Coney Barrett's America is a terrifying place

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-court-america


...or New Zealand...

Revealed: ex-members of Amy Coney Barrett faith group tell of trauma and sexual abuse

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...e-trauma-abuse

Clearly a cult.

Come on now.....


It is very apparent as to why the appointment is need done before the election.

No more tied decisions!

Just in time for the election, or coronation more likely!

Pope Francis calls for civil union law for same-sex couples

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/n...n-stance-12462

Very interesting. Her cult is VERY much against this, but they are supposedly Catholics, who should follow the Pope...

Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance

There was a time when you couldn't be confirmed as a fed'l judge if you belonged to a country club that didn't admit black people. I've been wondering how Judge Barrett being on a school board that discriminates against LBGTQ people is different.

:The Pope has entered the chat:

9:56 AM · Oct 21, 2020·Twitter Web App

Heather Cox Richardson
October 23, 2020 (Friday)

Today the United States had at least 82,600 new cases of coronavirus, our highest daily level of cases in a single day since the pandemic started. The outbreak is widespread, meaning it will be harder to move medical personnel around to address the crisis. We have lost close to 224,000 Americans to Covid-19. As it spreads through Republican-governed states, leaders refuse to use government authority to slow its reach. “It’s not a job for government,” North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum said.

In a sign that Trump supporters see his reelection in danger, tonight on his show on the Fox News Channel, Lou Dobbs unloaded on South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, who is the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, for not doing more to help Trump. Dobbs urged South Carolinians not to vote for Graham, who is up for reelection.

This is ironic, since one of the goals of the very public Republican effort to ram Amy Coney Barrett through a Senate confirmation vote was to get airtime for Graham, who is in an unexpectedly tight race. Graham is faced by Democrat Jaime Harrison, who raised an eye-popping $57 million last quarter, the most any Senate candidate has ever raised in a quarter. Harrison is the first Senate candidate in history to raise and spend more than $100 million.

Even if elected, Democratic senators will come too late to stop Barrett’s lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. Today, senators battled over the confirmation of the 48-year-old judge, whom Trump appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit just three years ago. Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is urging Republicans not to confirm an extremist judge less than two weeks before the election season will end. “The Republican majority is on the precipice of making a colossal and historic mistake,” Schumer said. “The damage it does to this chamber will be irrevocable.”

For his part, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blamed the fight over Supreme Court justices on Democrats, beginning with their 1987 opposition to Ronald Reagan’s nominee for the court, Robert Bork. This is a common complaint on the part of Republicans, although in Bork’s case, 6 Republicans joined the Democrats to oppose him—making the opposition bipartisan-- and the Democrats went on to confirm Reagan’s next nominee for the seat, Justice Anthony Kennedy, after only three days of hearings. The Senate confirmed Kennedy by a unanimous vote, indicating that the problem with Bork was not Democratic partisanship, but rather the nominee.

In this case, Barrett will be the third Supreme Court justice appointed by Trump, since McConnell refused even to hold hearings for President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Merrick Garland. McConnell said that holding confirmation hearings for Garland in March before an election was a disservice to voters, who should be allowed to make their wishes known in the upcoming election. If confirmed—and the Republicans have the votes to confirm her—Barrett will allow Trump to cement an originalist view of the Constitution on the Supreme Court.

Barrett’s appointment is the outcome of a longstanding attempt to overturn the active government under which we have lived since the 1930s. During the Great Depression, Democrats under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt began to use the government to regulate business, provide a basic social safety net—this is when we got Social Security—and promote infrastructure. But racist Democrats from the South balked at racial equality under this new government.

After World War II, under Chief Justice Earl Warren, a Republican appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower, and Chief Justice Warren Burger, a Republican appointed by Richard Nixon, the Supreme Court set out to make all Americans equal before the law. They tried to end segregation through the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, decision prohibiting racial segregation in public schools. In 1965, they protected the right of married couples to use contraception. In 1967, they legalized interracial marriage. In 1973, with the Roe v. Wade decision, they tried to give women control over their own reproduction by legalizing abortion.

The justices based their decisions on the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, passed by Congress in 1866 and ratified in 1868 in the wake of the Civil War. Congress developed this amendment after legislatures in former Confederate states passed “Black Codes” severely limiting the rights and protections for formerly enslaved people. Congress intended for the Fourteenth to enable the federal government to guarantee that African Americans had the same rights as white Americans, even in states whose legislatures wanted to keep them in a form of quasi-slavery.

Justices in the Warren and Burger courts used that same amendment to protect civil rights a century later. They argued that the Fourteenth Amendment required that the Bill of Rights apply to state governments as well as to the federal government. This is known as the “incorporation doctrine,” but the name matters less than the concept: states cannot abridge an individual’s rights, any more than the federal government can. This doctrine dramatically expanded civil rights.

But from the beginning, there was a backlash against the New Deal government by businessmen who objected to the idea of federal regulation and the bureaucracy it would require. As early as 1937, they were demanding an end to the active government and a return to the world of the 1920s, where businessmen could do as they wished, family and churches managed social welfare, and private interests profited from infrastructure projects. They gained little traction; the vast majority of Americans liked the new system.

But the expansion of civil rights under the Warren and Burger courts was a whole new kettle of fish. Opponents of the new decisions insisted that the court was engaging in “judicial activism,” taking away from voters the right to make their own decisions about how society should work. That said that justices were “legislating from the bench.” They insisted that the Constitution is limited by the views of its framers, and that the government can do nothing that is not explicitly written in that 1787 document. Faced with confusion over the exact meaning of the Constitution, some revised their position in a few ways, one of which was to rest on “textualism,” the idea that a law says exactly what it says and nothing else.

This is the foundation for today’s “originalists” like Barrett. They are trying to erase the era of legislation and legal decisions that constructed our modern nation. If the government is as limited as they say, it cannot protect the rights of minorities or women. It cannot regulate business. It cannot provide a social safety net, or promote infrastructure.

Their doctrine will send authority for civil rights back to the states to wither or thrive as different legislatures see fit, so long as their laws don’t run into textual problems, in which case the Supreme Court will step in to limit state actions.

Barrett is a darling of religious conservatives who expect her to overturn Roe v. Wade, and to undermine civil rights legislation, as the court did, for example, in the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision gutting the 1965 Voting Rights Act. But she also has the support of secret dark money donors. She will be the key vote to having a solid pro-corporate Supreme Court that will sharply limit what the federal government can do. Such a court can be expected to gut government regulation of business with more decisions like the 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision and to slash the social safety net. First up, of course, is the Affordable Care Act, about which the court will begin to hear arguments on November 10, just a week after the election.

This version of our government is not popular. Republican senators who will vote for Barrett represent 14.3 million fewer Americans than the Democratic senators who oppose her confirmation. Schumer today warned his Republican colleagues: “The majority has trampled over norms, rules, standards, honor, values, any of them that could possibly stand in its monomaniacal pursuit to put someone on the court who will take away the rights of so many Americans.”

Amy Coney Barrett’s Judicial Philosophy Doesn’t Hold Up to Scrutiny
The Constitution should be the sturdy vessel of our ideals and aspirations, not a derelict sailing ship locked in the ice of a world far from our own.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...arrett/616844/

Robert Barnes @scotusreporter

BREAKING: Supreme Court won't expedite Republican request to stop extended deadline for receiving mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania. New Justice Barrett did not participate

2:17 PM · Oct 28, 2020·Twitter Web App

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So, Repubes can't suppress PA vote as much as they'd like. Their appeal is still on the table, tho, but after Nov 3rd...

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley

BREAKING: Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to block North Carolina mail-in ballot deadline extension

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley
Replying to @lawrencehurley

Justice Barrett didn't participate. Thomas, Gorusch, Alito would have granted the GOP application

4:34 PM · Oct 28, 2020·TweetDeck

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Donny must be REALLY pissed at her right now... :D

In a 5-4 ruling, Supreme Court sides with religious groups in a dispute over Covid-19 restrictions in New York

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/26/polit...vid/index.html

Welcome to the American Taliban. :(

At least Roberts joined the sensible, non-partisan justices, but that, obviously, won't be enough now that five disgusting, biased, ultra-conservative, religious bigots are seated.

The Deeper Problems with Justice Barrett's Book Deal

https://reason.com/volokh/2021/04/20...tts-book-deal/

Even the libertarians at "Reason" take issue with this ridiculous book deal. Judges should be barred from doing such things, clearly.

Just as bad as Kavanaugh not revealing who paid off his massive debt for him.

Legal claims shed light on founder of faith group tied to Amy Coney Barrett
Examination of People of Praise comes as supreme court seems poised to reverse Roe v Wade

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-coney-barrett

Horrific cult.