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Barrett in 2018.

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Amy Coney Barrett is a justice for the Supreme Court of the United States appointed by President Donald Trump in 2020 after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, after he nominated her to the circuit court in 2017. During her original nomination, she gained controversy for her strong Catholic faith and membership in the "People of Praise" sect, which some were worried would impact her decisions as a judge. Senator Diane Feinstein, while expressing fear her religious beliefs would cause her to overturn Roe v. Wade, famously told Barrett "the dogma lives loudly within you, and that is a concern." (Ironically, it was this comment which caused Barrett to become popular with the more theocratic aspects of the right-wing.)

Time In The Circuit

During her years as a judge, Barrett showed a tendency to write hard-right opinions which critics argued disregarded the constitutional rights of those involved and were just all around inhumane. Some highlights include:

• She refused to hear a case regarding an immigration officer accusing a United States citizen of human smuggling based and refusing to grant his children visas on that basis on no evidence due to said officer citing a status to back up his decision. This was in spite of the man in question having mountains of evidence showing this was incorrect. (A decision with even got her criticism from the famously anti-immigrant Center for Immigration Studies.)
• She threw out a case where a woman sued her health center for pain and bruising she experienced after a pap smear on a technicality that was described as so minor that she even admitted “even an experienced medical malpractice lawyer” might made it. (Said person was representing herself without an attorney).
• She wrote that, although the rights of a black man who had been imprisoned for murder were violated, the way in which his rights had been violated failed to cast doubt on a guilty verdict. Specifically, she argued that a failure by the prosecution to disclose that the witness who led to the conviction only identified the person convicted after going under hypnosis did not cast doubt on the guilty verdict.

Supreme Court

Those who think she would somehow moderate her views once on the Supreme Court were mistaken, since her confirmation she has been a consistent member of the court's right-wing, with her:

• Voting against the blocking of a Texas abortion ban.
• Voting to overturn Roe v. Wade.
• Voting that the City of Philadelphia violated the rights of a Catholic social services agency that refused to allow adoption to same-sex couples because the city refused to fund it.

Other Notable Facts

Barrett worked for the legal team of George W. Bush during the 2000 Bush v. Gore case.