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Amy Coney Barrett

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Amy Coney Barrett is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, having been nominated by President Donald Trump and confirmed in October 2020. She is known for her conservative judicial philosophy and has been involved in significant rulings on issues such as abortion, healthcare, and administrative authority. Barrett previously served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and has a background in law academia, including a professorship at Notre Dame Law School. Barrett's judicial approach emphasizes textualism and originalism, reflecting her commitment to interpreting the Constitution as it was originally intended.

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Jun 27, 2025

As the number of universal injunctions has increased, so too has the importance of the issue.

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Jun 18, 2025

If laws that classify based on transgender status necessarily trigger heightened scrutiny, then the courts will inevitably be in the business of ‘closely scrutiniz(ing) legislative choices’ in all these domains.

cnn.com
Jun 18, 2025

transgender people don’t deserve such protection

msnbc.com
Jun 18, 2025

transgender people have not sufficiently faced a history of legal discrimination

msnbc.com
Jun 18, 2025

Legislatures have many valid reasons to make policy in these areas, and so long as a statute is a rational means of pursuing a legitimate end, the Equal Protection Clause is satisfied.

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Jun 18, 2025

Even if a law does clearly and undeniably discriminate on the basis of transgender status, then it still wouldn’t trigger heightened scrutiny.

slate.com
May 15, 2025

Did you just say you’re not going to listen to what a circuit court says?

slate.com
Apr 1, 2025

We're here because of Planned Parenthood not being a qualified provider in South Carolina, but would this open the floodgates of people bringing lawsuits because they can't see the provider of their choice?

cbsnews.com
Mar 25, 2025

That seems pretty empty because it would be just kind of throwing a number out there for the sake of throwing a number.

nbcnews.com
Feb 24, 2025

she would have the exact same burden

cbsnews.com
Feb 24, 2025

She would have the exact same burden.

cbsnews.com
Apr 24, 2024

Petitioner turned to a private attorney who was willing to spread knowingly false claims of election fraud to spearhead his challenges to the election results.

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Mar 3, 2024

Writings on the Court should turn the national temperature down, not up. For present purposes, our differences are far less important than our unanimity: All nine Justices agree on the outcome of this case. That is the message Americans…

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Mar 15, 2023

History is consistent with common sense. It demonstrates that legislatures have the power to prohibit dangerous people from possessing guns.

congress.gov
Mar 15, 2023

History is consistent with common sense. It demonstrates that legislatures have the power to prohibit dangerous people from possessing guns.

congress.gov
May 16, 2022

Rendering the decision legislative also ensures that a decision to suspend emerges from a process that is relatively more representative of the people whose civil liberties are at stake.

congress.gov
May 11, 2022

Roe v. Wade clearly held that the constitution protected a woman`s right to terminate a pregnancy. Casey upheld that central holding and spelled out in greater detail the test that the court uses to consider the legality of abortion…

msnbc.com
Mar 20, 2022

I have no agenda to try to overrule Casey.

congress.gov
Dec 27, 2021

I don’t think that abortion or the right to abortion is -- would change even...

msnbc.com
Dec 3, 2021

It doesn`t seem to me to follow that pregnancy and then parenthood are all part of the same burden.

msnbc.com
Nov 30, 2021

It’s also focused on the consequences of parenting and the obligations of motherhood that flow from pregnancy. Why don’t the safe haven laws take care of that problem?

msnbc.com
Nov 1, 2021

I’m wondering if in a defensive posture in state court, the constitutional defense can be fully aired.

msnbc.com
Oct 31, 2021

Even apart from these procedural requirements that you're talking about, I'm wondering if, in a defensive posture in state court, the constitutional defense can be fully aired.

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