permafrost wrote:
The woman chosin to rescue trump from the real world is facing the ravages of the country trying to fullfill her assigned job of stopping an election, keeping the criminal in office and making sure he can avoid jail time..
It seems a challenge she can not meet and is not prepared for.. a justice of the SC is meant to enforce the laws of the land, not help the critin in the oval office avoid the punishment for his life time crime and abuse..
She has not spent nearly enough time practicing law (as opposed to teaching it) to be on the Supreme Court.
She claims to be an “originalist”. This is the legal version of Biblical literalists, who claim that their interpretation is privileged because (they claim) it isn’t an interpretation at all. This is clearly codswallop. It would require thinking that an appropriate definition of “cruel and unusual punishment”, “speedy trial”, “militia”, “unreasonable search”, or dozens of other things have not changed in society between 1791 and today. It also ignores the historical fact that the people who wrote and ratified the Constitution immediately began to disagree about what parts of it meant. The idea that there is a single “right” historical interpretation of the entire Constitution is preposterous, but it is an article of faith with some people who apparently can’t defend their legal theories with anything other than an appeal to authority.
She has written that the only rights we have are ones specified in the Constitution. This directly contradicts the Ninth Amendment; anyone with that poor an understanding of the Convention should not be on the bench in any court.
She refused to answer simple and direct questions with obvious and clear answers, such as whether the President can legally delay elections, during her confirmation hearing. This clearly positions her as a political actor, not a legal one.
The very fact that she was willing to accept a nomination under circumstances where a) she has written that a nomination should not occur and b) the man who nominated her has made it clear that he views the nomination as part of a plan to have the Court decide any election disputes in his favor clearly indicate that she lacks the judgement to be on the Court.
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Amy Coney Barrett earned her B.A. in English literature, magna cum laude, from Rhodes College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and, among other honors, was chosen by the faculty as the most outstanding graduate in the college’s English department.
She earned her J.D., summa cum laude, from Notre Dame, where she was a Kiley Fellow, earned the Hoynes Prize, the Law School’s highest honor, as the number one student in her class, and served as executive editor of the Notre Dame Law Review.
Following her graduation from Notre Dame, she clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court.
As an associate at Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin in Washington, D.C., she litigated constitutional, criminal, and commercial cases in both trial and appellate courts. Judge Barrett has served as a visiting associate professor and John M. Olin Fellow in Law at the George Washington University Law School, as a visiting associate professor of law at the University of Virginia and is a member of the American Law Institute.
After her one year clerkship with Justice Scalia, Amy Coney Barrett became a professor of law at her Alumni, the Notre Dame School of Law.
There she taught
LAW60307, Constitutional Law
LAW60308, Civil Procedure
LAW70201, Evidence
LAW70311, Federal Courts
LAW73303, Constitutional Theory Seminar
LAW73370, Statutory Interpretation Seminar
In 2017, Amy Coney Barrett was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals 7th district.