How Amy Coney Barrett Is Confounding the Right and the Left

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President Trump appointed her to clinch a conservative legal revolution. But soon after arriving at the Supreme Court, she began surprising her colleagues.

*Justice Barrett, appointed to clinch a 50-year conservative legal revolution, is showing signs of leftward drift.

She has become the Republican-appointed justice most likely to be in the majority in decisions that reach a liberal outcome, according to a new analysis of her record prepared for The New York Times. Her influence — measured by how often she is on the winning side — is rising. Along with the chief justice, a frequent voting partner, Justice Barrett could be one of the few people in the country to check the actions of the president.'



https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/us/amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court.html

[Skittles]

1. she's not really confounding me

she's a religious nutcase who isn't too keen on fascism

[Mike Nelson]

2. I think she would...

... be happier with President Vance. Of course, Trump has been good for the cause, but he's so obviously unholy.