It’s Not Too Late For Amy Coney Barrett To Be The Reliable Originalist America Needs
By: Shawn Fleetwood
June 17, 2025Americans don’t have time for Barrett to spend years figuring out what kind of justice she wants to be.What kind of Supreme Court justice is Amy Coney Barrett going to be?That appeared to be the question a new expose by New York Times hack Jodi Kantor attempted to answer. Published Sunday, the lengthy article features analysis of the Trump appointee’s SCOTUS record thus far, as well as comments from former associates and Court watchers on her jurisprudence and how she approaches legal questions.
The goal, as it seems, is to decipher whether the Catholic mother of seven will follow in the originalist philosophy of her old boss (former Justice Antonin Scalia) or go the way of disappointing Republican appointees such as former Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and David Souter.
But the answer isn’t clear cut — at least, not yet.
To be sure, Barrett’s SCOTUS tenure has not been what many outside Court observers were expecting. Despite having clerked for Scalia and previously proclaimed to share his jurisprudence, the Trump appointee has become a bit of a wild card on key issues making their way to the high court.
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https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/17/its-not-too-late-for-amy-coney-barrett-to-be-the-reliable-originalist-america-needs/
