Human Rights
Amy Coney Barrett Has Been Having a Really, Really Bad Summer So Far
When Amy Coney Barrett joined with her fellow conservative justices to overturn Roe v. Wade, thus upending 50 years of progressive women’s rights, she probably didn’t foresee the trouble that might be heading her way. But she’s seeing it now.
Last month, after the Dobbs draft was leaked to the public before the final ruling was announced, The Guardian published an explosive report about the time Barrett spent as a member of People of Praise, an anti-LGBTQ Christian cult. There, she was considered a female leader. The publication’s report included allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior against group leader Kevin Ranaghan and his wife, Dorothy, who Barrett lived with for a couple of years during the mid-90s.
Then there was last week when a very large group of peaceful protesters converged in front of her home in a quiet Virginia neighborhood, carrying signs that read “Keep Your Rosaries Off My Ovaries,” “No Forced Birth,” “Our Rights Are Not Up For Debate” and “Liar” which featured a photo of Barrett underneath.
Now Slate political writer Mark Joseph Stern has verbally eviscerated her in an op-ed titled Amy Coney Barrett is in Over Her Head that details why Barrett, nominated by then-president Donald Trump to replace the late justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is not the right person for her job.
“Part of the problem is that, of all the current justices, Barrett had the least amount of preparation and training for the unique requirements of the job. She spent most of her career as a professor at Notre Dame, where her students chose her as distinguished professor of the year three times,” Stern writes. “Her academic work was often dry and technical, verging on esoteric, and she avoided committing herself to any controversial ideas. Donald Trump appointed her to head a federal appeals court in 2017, where she served for less than three years before joining the Supreme Court. Her opinions seemed calculated to improve her chances for a SCOTUS seat. No other members of today’s court had so little experience in public service before their elevation.
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But it’s not just that Barrett is completely inexperienced, Stern writes. She’s done nothing to rebuild confidence in the nation’s highest court after her October 2020 confirmation.
“Barrett has done little to dispel the fumes of partisanship and illegitimacy that poisoned her appointment. Her attempts at public relations have backfired. She inked a lucrative book deal for her memoirs before she had produced a scintilla of public thought. In September the justice declared that she and her colleagues were not “a bunch of partisan hacks” while standing next to [Mitch] McConnell at a center named after him,” Stern adds. “(She limited press access to the event.) In April, she urged Americans to “read the opinions” before concluding that the court’s work was purely results-driven.”
But the Slate writer is also not impressed with her performance when she makes oral statements and certainly didn’t explain her sentiments in overturning Roe v. Wade.
“The justice wrote nothing in Dobbs to tell us why she overruled Roe. She wrote nothing in Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta, a brutal assault on tribal sovereignty. Nothing in West Virginia v. EPA hobbling climate regulations; or Kennedy v. Bremerton allowing Christian prayer in public schools; or Carson v. Makin forcing public funding of religious education; or Vega v. Tekah undermining Miranda warnings; or the brutal habeas decisions that let states innocent people.”
I really didn’t think I’d live to see the day prayer would be allowed back in schools or the overturning of Roe v. Wade. What’s even worse about Barrett obviously not being well-suited to be a Supreme Court justice; in the short time since she was appointed to the court, she’s done terrible damage to the nation and the rights of Americans. It’s my belief that anyone stopped by police should learn their rights and I also believe it’s eminently important for women to have autonomy over their own bodies. Thanks to Roe v. Wade being overturned we no longer have that.
Twitter users are letting Barrett know what they think right now. It’s what she deserves.
Question: Should religously brainwashed people be diagnosed with some kind of "mental" problem? It's a legitimate question. Clearly, people like Amy Coney Barrett are guided by some cult-like delusions.
— Liberal Lady (@Cougar34257791) July 14, 2022
Amy Coney Barrett gets a salary of $274,000 a yr. But last year she got an extra $425k as part of her $2M ‘book deal’.
Remember the days when envelopes with stacks of cash were surreptitiously passed to discreetly bribe a judge?
Nowadays bribes get announced in press releases.
— Alison Greene (@GrassrootsSpeak) July 10, 2022
Amy Coney Barrett lied under oath. She is just one more hypocrite in a long line of Republican liars in Congress and on the Court. She is supremely unfit to serve on SCOTUS. #CorruptGOP pic.twitter.com/HmLn77M4yv
— Southern Sister Resister – Wordsmith #IAmTheStorm (@ResisterSis20) July 8, 2022
I hope Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch never have a moment’s peace outside of their homes again. To paraphrase their favorite book, you reap what you sow.
— Laura Hockridge 🌻 (@Laurasenio) July 8, 2022
Dear Amy Coney Barrett, did god ask you to lie on the stand so you could secure a supreme court seat knowing yourself you are unqualified? So you could roll back woman's rights, do nothing about climate change and destroy democracy for a bunch of rich white men?
— James Tate (@JamesTate121) July 8, 2022
How Amy Coney Barrett explains the protestors to her family:
– "They think Mommy is a lying satanic bigot. To which I'll add the word proud"
– "Those are Jewish gay people. They must be rehearsing something"
– "Forget them and watch Handmaid's Tale. It's my Disney film" pic.twitter.com/No4Ljl36rq— Paul Rudnick (@PaulRudnickNY) July 11, 2022
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