Amy Coney Barrett Tears Into Trump Official to Defend Liberal Justice at Supreme Court

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Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett ripped into President Donald Trump’s solicitor general on Thursday for disrespecting one of the high court’s liberal justices.

Barrett, who was appointed by Trump in 2020 but has recently drawn the ire of MAGA, slammed Solicitor General Dean John Sauer for giving what she felt was an insufficient response to Justice Elena Kagan, an appointee of Barack Obama.

Barrett stepped in after Sauer’s answer and asked, “Sir, are you really going to answer Justice Kagan by saying there’s no way to do this expeditiously?”


Barrett, 53, has gotten under the skin of MAGA this year. Unlike the conservative stalwarts Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh, she has sided with her liberal counterparts in some high-profile cases.

That included Barrett’s vote in March to uphold a lower court’s decision and reject the Trump administration’s attempt to freeze nearly $2 billion in foreign aid. Her siding with the court’s liberal justices led some in Trumpland to refer to her as a “DEI pick,” adding that Trump should have picked someone further to the right after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death.

Amy Coney Barrett Tears Into Trump Official to Defend Liberal Justice at Supreme Court

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett ripped into President Donald Trump’s solicitor general on Thursday for disrespecting one of the high court’s liberal justices. Barrett, who was appointed by Trump in 2020 but has recently drawn the ire of MAGA, slammed Solicitor General Dean John Sauer for...

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[FastLane]

And this deserves it's own thread.

 

[BartenderElite]

She seems pretty reasonable - kind of like Roberts.

We need fewer pure partisans on the court.

 

[QP!]

She seems pretty reasonable - kind of like Roberts.

We need fewer pure partisans on the court.

her zealousness tend to tip towards religious issues and that is where i think you will see her distort the Constitution in league with the others.

on traditional 'conservative type issues' outside of religion, she tends be more of a traditional Justice conservative, and those prior Justices would align far more with the Liberals on this court than the maga Justices.

 

[FastLane]

She seems pretty reasonable - kind of like Roberts.

We need fewer pure partisans on the court.

OK we should replace Kagan, and Sotomayor then.

 

[Nordberg]

She seems pretty reasonable - kind of like Roberts.

We need fewer pure partisans on the court.

Hard to do when the far-right Federalist Society grooms and picks the judges appointed by Republican presidents. They pick the ones they like and follow and groom them while in law school.

 

[FastLane]

Hard to do when the far-right Federalist Society grooms and picks the judges appointed by Republican presidents. They pick the ones they like and follow and groom them while in law school.

Elections have consequences

 

[QP!]

Hard to do when the far-right Federalist Society grooms and picks the judges appointed by Republican presidents. They pick the ones they like and follow and groom them while in law school.

Yup.

The Federalist Society is becoming the sole track for right wing nominations for all level who want to rise up to Superior courts, Appeals courts, etc.

By the time you are up to move to the upper courts, you have had enough casual meetings with people trusted by the Federalist Society (oligarchs, certain church members, etc) that they feel a level of certainty that you are the right wing extreme puppet they require.

The right is no longer taking chances on 'respected jurists who have proven themselves through prior rulings that have stood up thru appeals', and who may 'vote with the left wing of the court on certain issues', and they regret that certain celebrated right jurists are celebrated for being compromising and putting 'law over ideology'.

Before Trumps term ends i expect probably both Thomas and Alito to retire and one of Trump's nominees to be Aileen Cannon, who is a disgrace of a judge. A true embarrassment.