President Donald Trump formally announced Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a move that will solidify the high courtR…
the landmark Obergefell vs. Hodges ruling in 2015. She also has questioned whether federal Title IX protections extend to transgender Americans.
Barrett was a law professor at Notre Dame University from 2002 to 2017 and before that was in private practice and served as a clerk to Scalia, one of her mentors. Like Scalia, she has said that she is an originalist. On CNN, Jeffrey Toobin said that the differences in judicial philosophy between Barrett and Ginsburg “could not be more different.” Although he said that Barrett’s record and personal story are impressive, so too was that of Garland.
But others have pushed back against the idea that criticism of Barrett’s views is anti-Catholic, especially given that practicing Catholics in the country run the ideological spectrum. Biden, for example, would be only the second Catholic president in history if he is elected.
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