Amy Kony Barrett has been studying full -time for nearly two decades, on the Notre Dame campus in South Bend, Indiana, until she was chosen by President Donald Trump, in 2020, To work in the Supreme Court. Now, the semester has been circulated in the courtroom, although it continues to teach a week -long seminar on constitutional law.
In her first television interview since she filled the seat left by the late judge Ruth Badr Ginsburg, Barrett was asked whether she believed that the court had moved to the right. “I think that moving to the right, or moving to the left, and I think these are signs of others, and this is the game of others,” she said. “I don’t think about it this way. You know, I just decide the cases that come. I have been criticized by the right and the left.”
Judge Barrett’s legal philosophy and the personal story is the focus of her new book, “Listen to the law,” On September 9. In that, she wrote that for her, the past five years have not been easy since joining the Supreme Court: “I am the happiest with my old friends who knew me before I became Judge Barrett, and I am sad when we return to South Bend.”
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But she does not regret joining the Supreme Court. “No, I do not regret it,” she said. “I think this is a really important work, and I am proud to serve. We have a good life in Washington, and we have friends in Washington. But there is something nice in our old life.”
Observers at the Supreme Court describe the 53 -year -old mother for seven -year -old “the most influential justice” in the court today. Among the most prominent cases of this, her vote was to cancel Roe V. Wade in 2022 DOBBS ResolutionWhich has turned nearly 50 years of the precedent surrounding the right to abortion.
In order to oppose the minority, judges, Stephen Prayer, Sonia Sotomior, and Elena Kagan, wrote:
“[T]The court may face questions about the application of abortion regulations to medical care that most people are seen as completely different from abortion. What about morning pills after the morning? Iuds? In fertilization in the laboratory? What about the use of expansion, evacuation or medicine to managing miscarriage? “
When asked if she sees these issues coming now as a result of Dobbs, Barrett replied, “These are the issues inherent in medical practice. Certainly, they surround care for pregnancy and care for women. These are the issues that are now left in the democratic process. The states are working on these cases.
However, Barrett added, “Dobbs did not make miscarriage illegal. Dobbs did not mention anything about whether abortion is immoral. Dobbs said that these are remaining questions for the states. And all these types of questions – the decisions that you mention require medical rulings – do not link the constitution in the courts, as you know in pregnancy. Before, what Dubes says is that these calls are left correctly for the process Democracy.
For some, Dubes raised concerns about the future of other rights. in The appearance of moderate podcasts Last month, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton predicted that the court “will do gay marriage what they did to abort.”
“Well, I think the people who criticize the court or abroad say many different things. But again, the point that I clarify in the book is that we have to control these things,” said Barrett.
She also indicates in her book that the rights of marriage, engaging in sexual intimate relationship, using birth control, and raising children are, with her words, “basic”.
“Yes,” Barrett said. “Once again, describe what our faith is. This is what we said.”
Judgment on Trump’s policies
In the case now: Issues on the “emergency schedule”, challenging Mr. Trump’s executive orders. The country’s highest court routinely allowed the president’s policies (including on Migration and Collective workers for federal workers) To go ahead temporarily.
Barrett was asked to respond to court monitors who say that Mr. Trump pays the limits of the executive authority, and even exaggeration, and that the Supreme Court does not provide sufficient examination of this.
“The Supreme Court, as you know – and I can talk about myself and the way I make these decisions – it is not our duty to scan and determine whether, as you know, is the current work of an office at this particular moment, as you know, to constitute a political point of view. As you know, this is the task of journalists.
“Thus, in the cases we decided, what I can say, and what I am trying to explain in the book is that we are trying to obtain the law properly,” she said.
One of the White House policy that faced a retreat from federal courts The president deployed the National Guard forces in American citiesLike Los Angeles and Chicago. On August 26, Mr. Trump said: “Not that I do not have – I – the right to do anything I want to do. I’m the President of the United States. If I think our country is in danger – he is in danger in these cities – I can do this.”
He was asked whether she believed that the president is right when he says that he has an unlimited authority to spread the National Guard in any state, Barrett replied: “So we have no cases suspended in front of us that I am aware of it. I will not be surprised if there are some cases suspended below. Thus, I cannot answer this question. Why I cannot answer this question, because it is something I cover in the book. Any specific legal problem, I mean, I may sit there with my children and watch TV, and I may have an idea of it. But if you will decide something like a judge, this must really happen in the context of a specific case, because judges must deal with things with an open mind in a specific set of facts. We read summaries. Listen to the oral argument. I speak to my book. I am writing notes. I look at the cases. I speak with my colleagues. In any step of this process, I may change my opinion of my first reaction. In fact, I often do.
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“So I shouldn’t just, but I don’t think you want me to be in a situation where I can shoot from the thigh and say,” Oh yes. I think this is a constitutional “or,” oh no. I think this is not. ”This type is really contrary to the judicial ruling.”
“But you are a researcher in the constitution, so I also want to ask you, do you think that the ability to impose definitions is something that the constitution provides to the president, or is that left to Congress?”.
“Lap, and I have to give the same answer again, because that commentator is already in the courts, and we have been (darker to say probably) see this case,” Barrett replied. “Thus, the same thing is going. As you know, this is the type of thing that is waiting and seeing. I am not trying to hide the ball. I am sure that it is not only you, but the others may care, as you know, what I think about this question. I don’t know what I think about this question yet, you know frankly.
It is that philosophy that makes Barrett the most famous justice in this next term-and for the next years.
“Well, while I feel that I am the elderly on that day, I am not older, I am already thinking about retirement so far.”
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