Judge Amy Coney Barrett told the Senate Judiciary Committee that she knew she’d be putting her family through the ringer by saying yes to President Donald Trump’s plan to nominate her for the Supreme Court. ‘We knew that our lives would be combed over for any negative detail, we knew our faith would be caricatured, … Read more
Amy Coney Barrett embraced her classification as a ‘female Scalia’ on Tuesday as questioning of the Supreme Court nominee commenced on Day 2 of her confirmation hearing – but made sure to distinguish herself from the last Justice. ‘Justice [Antonin] Scalia was obviously a mentor,’ Barrett began of the Supreme Court Justice she clerked for, … Read more
Amy Coney Barrett arrived at the Capitol on Monday morning for the start of what’s bound to be a contentious confirmation hearing. The Supreme Court nominee will deliver an opening statement Monday afternoon following opening remarks from each of the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham started off the morning with … Read more
Amy Coney Barrett (pictured) will praise her mentor, the late Justice Antonin Scalia, and tell senators that courts ‘should not try’ to make policy in her opening statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday Amy Coney Barrett will praise her mentor, the late Justice Antonin Scalia, and tell senators courts ‘should not try’ to … Read more
A flurry of positive coronavirus test results that emerged Friday including the president’s share a common nexus: the celebratory White House event where Donald Trump rolled out his nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Amy Coney Barrett. The September 26 gathering – which was filled with peans to textualism and conservative jurisprudence, as well as … Read more
A Boston University professor is being urged to resign after saying Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett was a racist ‘white colonizer’ for adopting two black children from Haiti and using them as ‘props’. The charge was leveled at Judge Barrett – a devout Catholic who has five biological and two adopted children – on … Read more
Donald Trump said Sunday he chose to nominate Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court because he wanted a constitutional textualist to fill the spot left vacant by Ruth Bader Ginsburg. ‘Mostly, I’m looking for somebody that can interpret the Constitution as written,’ Trump told ‘Fox & Friends’ co-host Pete Hegseth during an interview that … Read more
President Donald Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Saturday, capping a dramatic reshaping of the federal judiciary that will resonate for a generation and that he hopes will provide a needed boost to his reelection effort. Barrett, a judge on the Chicago-based 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals and a … Read more
Joe Biden has warned that Donald Trump’s choice of new Supreme Court justice would get rid of Obamacare, repeating once again his demand that a replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg not be appointed until after the election. Biden said that Amy Coney Barrett, officially announced as Trump’s nominee on Saturday evening, was known to be … Read more
President Donald Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Saturday, capping a dramatic reshaping of the federal judiciary that will resonate for a generation and that he hopes will provide a needed boost to his reelection effort. Barrett, a judge on the Chicago-based 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals and a … Read more