Will SCOTUS favorite end up disappointing conservatives?

[Quixote1818]

Yahoo News
ALEXANDER NAZARYAN

WASHINGTON — Many Republicans have hailed Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s apparent nominee to the Supreme Court to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as a dream candidate: a relatively young woman of impeccable conservative credentials. The federal circuit court judge believes that life begins at conception. She is a critic of the Affordable Care Act, the Obama-era health care law that Trump wants badly to dismantle. She has upheld restrictive immigration statutes while protecting corporations from lawsuits.

But she has also been consistently against injecting politics into the business of judging, presenting a potential problem for those who see the Supreme Court as a means of achieving ends not possible through legislation.

“I would have had no interest in the job if the job was about policymaking and about making policy decisions,” she said last year in an address at conservative Hillsdale College. “If we reduce the courts to mere politics, then why do we need them? We already have politicians,” Barrett added a little later. “Courts are not arenas for politics.”

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[OhioBlue]

1. Maybe everyone on the left should just start heaping praise on her when she is officially

nominated and get their base all riled up.

Edit to add: I mean of course to confuse MAGA so they think it is actually a bad pick and they start protesting her.

[elleng]

2. Anything's possible;

recall Earl Warren.

[Amishman]

6. O'Conner and Souter too

The right has a reoccurring issue of their conservative appointments turning out moderate or liberal on the bench.

I can't think of a Democrat appointee that turned out to be a closet conservative. I guess we're better judges of character?

[elleng]

8. Right, thanks for the reminders.

From what I've read about her, 'surprises' are possible, that is, expectations on both side of the aisle may very well contain undue aspects.

[soothsayer]

3. She's born on my birthday, January 28. I have hope for her.

We’ll see.

[UTUSN]

4. "has upheld restrictive" this or that - so she talks purity but upholds crap. I see.

[GeorgeGist]

5. She's insane. eom

[Cosmocat]

7. T H I S

nm

[Boogiemack]

9. If she has one two bones of humanity in her she will disappoint them. nt