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President Trump plans to announce that Amy Coney Barrett will be his nominee to the Supreme Court to fill the seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, multiple sources told Fox News on Friday.
The president is expected to make the announcement during a White House event on Saturday. Barrett currently serves as a judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Picture a female jurist who has consistently defied social expectations imposed on women and whose legal thinking is closely bound up with her faith. No, I’m not talking about Amy Coney Barrett, reported to top President Trump’s list of candidates to fill the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat. I’m talking about Ginsburg herself.
Ginsburg believed fervently that conventional expectations shouldn’t hinder women as they seek their full, fair share of public life. Nor was she shy about how her Jewish faith shaped her judicial mind. In an essay for the American Jewish Committee published in 1993, she wrote: “Laws as protectors of the oppressed, the poor, the loner, is evident in the work of my Jewish predecessors. . . . The biblical command ‘Justice, justice shalt thou pursue’ is a strand that ties them together.”
By those criteria, Barrett would make a most worthy successor to RBG. In nominating the 48-year-old Louisianan, the president would present the nation with an inspiring vision of what it means to be an American woman in 2020 — one that could by turns surprise and captivate the suburban women Trump is keen to court while also delivering for the GOP base.
“Amy represents an opportunity to showcase a generationally brilliant, special intellect — who also is a mom,” says O. Carter Snead, Barrett’s longtime faculty colleague at the Notre Dame law school, where Barrett also received her law degree.
Her rare combination of hyper-intelligence and humility is a matter of bipartisan consensus. “The smartest person in the room and also the most humble” was how Snead and two other sources intimately familiar with Barrett described her, echoing each other almost verbatim.
Harvard Law School prof Noah Feldman — a liberal who testified before Congress in favor of impeaching the president — hailed her as “a truly brilliant lawyer” in a 2018 column. Feldman should know. He and Barrett were members of the same class of Supreme Court clerks in 1998.
“She was one of the two best lawyers” of the 40 clerks “and arguably the single best.” Feldman concluded: “She was legally prepared enough to go on the court 20 years ago.”
When Trump nominated Barrett to the Seventh Circuit, every single one of those 40 fellow clerks endorsed her as a “first-rate” thinker, including such vehemently anti-Trump figures as Neal Katyal, solicitor general under Team Obama. The entire Notre Dame law faculty likewise endorsed her, “and that includes people who identify as liberal,” as Snead was quick to note.
She is recognized as an expert on how judges are supposed to interpret statutes — a crucial role, as demonstrated by Justice Neil Gorsuch’s bizarre recent reading of “gender identity” into a civil rights statute enacted in the 1960s. She has also thought deeply about the relationship among the branches of government, a gnarly and seriously important area of law.
Trump to nominate Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court: sources
President Trump plans to announce that Amy Coney Barrett will be his nominee to the Supreme Court to fill the seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sources told Fox News.www.foxnews.com
Absolutely love it, let's see the radical left attack a women nominee for the Supreme Court to replace a woman on the SC
Why Amy Coney Barrett is hands-down best pick to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Picture a female jurist who has consistently defied social expectations imposed on women and whose legal thinking is closely bound up with her faith. No, I’m not talking about Amy Coney Barrett, re…nypost.com
Amazing that your mother didn't act on Roe vs Wade as you are here.She the one who fully intends to do everything she can to overturn Roe?
The backlash will be immense, but paid for with the blood of poor women who simply cannot afford to travel to another state for it to be done properly. Evil done in the name of faux good. Religion's work, yet again.
But hey, it'll be the poors paying for your self-righteous buzz, so who gives a damn amirite?
If Democrats aren’t careful, this could be another Brett Kavanaugh all over again...Instead of making this about the candidate herself, Democrats need to hammer home the message that regardless of who was going to be named to that seat, they would have the full intention of striking down the ACA, and Roe v Wade and would be hostile to just about every progressive cause and issue. At this point, all Democrats can do is messaging in hopes of driving people to get out and vote
Someone asked about are picks made on merit? I said trump will pick on her looks and lo and behold.
Trump to nominate Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court: sources
President Trump plans to announce that Amy Coney Barrett will be his nominee to the Supreme Court to fill the seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sources told Fox News.www.foxnews.com
Absolutely love it, let's see the radical left attack a women nominee for the Supreme Court to replace a woman on the SC
Why Amy Coney Barrett is hands-down best pick to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Picture a female jurist who has consistently defied social expectations imposed on women and whose legal thinking is closely bound up with her faith. No, I’m not talking about Amy Coney Barrett, re…nypost.com
Someone asked about are picks made on merit? I said trump will pick on her looks and lo and behold.
Your partisan hackery aside, explain how she lacks merit.
Simply dumb. Barbara Lagoa is hotter:
She has very little experience, has made compromsing political statements, and is Christian Sharia Law type who is out of touch with our constitution.
But we’re gonna kill her on trying to end the ACA. it’s all we’re gonna talk about. We are gonna bury her in that. And then those swing state GOPers in tight races will need to vote up or down on the SC judge Trump has promised will kill healthcare, abortion, and give him the election.
But we’re gonna kill her on trying to end the ACA. it’s all we’re gonna talk about. We are gonna bury her in that.
Religious tests are unconstitutional.
Interesting language.
When have democrats ever NOT overplay their weak hand.
Answer: Never.
They'll attack her over stupid shit and make outrageously silly accusations that will do nothing but drum up support for her. If you want to fire up the right wing base, attack Amy Coney Barrett.
That is because he was wanted. What is your excuse for being here?Amazing that your mother didn't act on Roe vs Wade as you are here.
A nominee who intends to take health care away from tens of millions of Americans and bring back pre-existing conditions during a pandemic should be very popular.
I see the problem here. You do realize that the supreme court can't eliminate Obamacare "during a pandemic" or at all. They would need something before the court to rule on. They don't rule by fiat.
Trump to nominate Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court: sources
President Trump plans to announce that Amy Coney Barrett will be his nominee to the Supreme Court to fill the seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sources told Fox News.www.foxnews.com
Absolutely love it, let's see the radical left attack a women nominee for the Supreme Court to replace a woman on the SC
Why Amy Coney Barrett is hands-down best pick to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Picture a female jurist who has consistently defied social expectations imposed on women and whose legal thinking is closely bound up with her faith. No, I’m not talking about Amy Coney Barrett, re…nypost.com
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