With piercing questions and a willingness to break ranks with fellow conservatives, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett played a new role this term.
Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Sonia Sotomayor, not pictured, participate in a discussion at the Civic Learning Week National Forum at George Washington University in March. The dissent was biting, accusing the Supreme Court’s conservative majority of “feeble” and “cherry-picked” arguments that inaccurately downplayed the Environmental Protection Agency’s role in protecting air quality.
“She is a conservative jurist through and through. She is not going to be the next Harry Blackmun or David Souter,” he said in an email, referring to two past justices nominated by Republican presidents who became some of the court’s more liberal members.Democrats were outraged that then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pushed Barrett through to replace
“Justice Barrett is a conservative judge in multiple senses of the word. She certainly joins the court’s steps to the right in big cases,” Allison Larsen, who teaches at William & Mary Law School, said in an email. “But she also appears to prefer a conservative methodology that is risk-averse, careful and deliberate.”Her crossover votes and separate writing this term shows “she is far from the rigid conservative that some expected when she joined the court,” attorney Gregory S.
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