Amy Coney Barrett faces conservative backlash
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!
The Supreme Court handed one major defeat and two weak victories to Donald Trump, who closed his session with a bang yesterday.
However, the court, which includes three Trump appointees, also ruled against the president in some cases.
It came as no surprise to anyone that Trump praised positive decisions and canceled negative decisions.
So the atmosphere was ripe for all kinds of media spin.
THE SUPREME COURT’S LATEST IMMIGRATION DECISION WILL ‘CAUSE DEATH AND HARM’ TO AMERICANS, SAID THE LAWYER
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has become the focus of criticism from some conservatives after several high-profile decisions handed down at the end of the court’s tenure. (AP)
Perhaps the decision that sparked the most outrage was the court’s approval of Trump’s $5 million payment to author E. Jean Carroll for allegations of insults and sexual assault in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in 1996.
Trump’s reaction: “Astonishingly, the Supreme Court refused to ‘review’ the Bogus Lawsuit filed against me by a woman I’ve never met (The decades-old celebrity photo op standing next to her husband doesn’t count!) I will continue to fight this weaponization and Civil Lawsuit, including the ridiculous Defamation claim against me, with all my might and strength.”
But he withdrew the appeal. The Supreme Court just rejected it. Finished.
SUPREME COURT WAS EXAMINED OVER ‘DEVESTIVE’ AND ‘UGLY’ BIRTH RIGHT CITIZENSHIP DECISION
You know what’s fascinating?
Each judicial nominee states that, as John Roberts once noted, they will only call for cannon and assault before the Senate, and legislators nod sagely.
But when the newly appointed judge votes against Trump and his team, they accuse him of imprudence—in other words, of failing to pass the political loyalty test they ignored during his confirmation hearings.
The target of the day is Trump appointee Amy Coney Barrett, who wrote an opinion in a 5-4 case in which she and Roberts joined liberals.
President Donald Trump spoke to reporters at the White House. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Days after Election Day.
The right went crazy. Conservative writer Hans Mahncke said of X: “The worst part is that he will be imposing left-wing policies there for the next 40 years.”
Barrett dissented Monday on whether Trump could fire a Fed governor, saying it was wrong to base her decisions narrowly on Trump’s emergency request.
You need thick skin in this lifelong business.
The most important of three major cases decided yesterday was the court’s defeat of Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship, under which anyone born on US soil is automatically considered an American citizen.
END OF MAIN TERM DECISIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT ON BIRTH RIGHTS, CITIZENSHIP, TRANSGENDER ATHLETES AND CAMPAIGN FINANCE
Barrett, along with the chief justice, joined the court’s liberals in saying this was a violation of the 14th Amendment, which addressed equal rights for citizens and was ratified in 1868 to protect the rights of newly freed slaves.
Barrett has deep-rooted beliefs dating back to her career as a Notre Dame law professor and deep religious beliefs as a Catholic who is also associated with a charismatic Christian community called the People of Praise.
The New York Times says some of Trump’s allies are seeking justice with seven children adopted from Haiti and two black children that DEI rented.
Barrett wrote this week’s majority opinion in the 5-4 case in favor of a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots to be counted after Election Day.
The president disparaged mail-in ballots, calling it a “tremendous loss.”
Of course, having a swing vote like Sandra Day O’Connor increases her influence during negotiations behind the white marble portico of Corinthian columns.
Rain clouds hover over the United States Supreme Court building. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
In two other landmark cases decided yesterday, the high court allowed political parties to coordinate directly with candidates and upheld the right of states to ban biological males from competing in women’s sports.
“Once,” Barrett wrote in her memoirs, “when the other justices agreed with a particularly thorny opinion of mine, my chamber celebrated with an impromptu bottle of champagne.”
For example, he voted to reinstate the death penalty for the Boston Marathon bomber, even though he was personally opposed to the death penalty.
CLICK TO DOWNLOAD FOX NEWS APPLICATION
After all, the conservative backlash against Amy Coney Barrett says more about her critics and is sometimes directed more at other justices than at herself.
They feel betrayed because they wanted him to politically support the man who nominated him.
But this is not judicial independence.
