As expected, President Donald Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court:
“Today it is my honor to nominate one of our nation’s most brilliant and gifted legal minds to the Supreme Court. She is a woman of unparalleled achievement, towering intellect, sterling credentials, and unyielding loyalty to the Constitution, Judge Amy Coney Barrett,” Trump said at a press conference at the White House announcing Barrett’s nomination.
Barrett has served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since she was appointed by Trump in 2017. The 48-year-old Notre Dame law professor clerked for late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and is a conservative Catholic mother of seven, including two adopted children from Haiti.
When she was nominated to be a judge on the Seventh Circuit, three Democratic senators supported Barrett’s confirmation, Tim Kaine of Virginia, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, and former senator Joe Donnelly of Indiana. Over the past week, Senate Democrats have expressed vehement opposition to her nomination to the Supreme Court.
You don’t say.
Here’s the video of the announcement.
Here’s the transcript. Barrett: “I love the United States and I love the United States constitution. I am truly humbled by the prospect of serving on the supreme court.”
Those are the two reasons the Left hates her. https://t.co/CuR5KMSoot
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) September 26, 2020
Also:
I was lucky enough to clerk for Justice Scalia and given his incalculable influence on my life. I am very moved to have members of the Scalia family here today, including his dear wife, Maureen. I clerked for justice Scalia more 20 years ago, but the lessons I learned still resonate.
His judicial philosophy is mine too, a judge must apply the law as written. Judges are not policymakers and they must be resolute and setting aside any policy views they might hold.
Democrats are already melting down, now that their desperate attempts to somehow guilt-trip Trump into not nominating a Supreme Court justice have failed. (And this is why we have Trump: it’s very easy to imagine McCain or Romney caving. As Abraham Lincoln said of Ulysses S. Grant, “I cannot spare this man. He fights.”) The fact that Barrett is a believing Catholic woman, thus threatening the Democratic Party’s central holy sacrament of abortion, is driving them extra crazy. Democratic senators are already announcing that they won’t even meet with Barrett.
As with Kavanaugh, expect Democrats to ignore all limits of human decency, even though some are already admitting that they don’t have the votes to stop her confirmation:
Yep, they’re doing it. pic.twitter.com/apN5q3xl78
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 26, 2020
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 26, 2020
If you talk to people with adopted children of another race, you'll learn to your horror that there is, in fact, a significant left-wing movement opposing & denouncing mixed-race adoption & working to turn adoptees against white parents. This stuff does not come out of nowhere.
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) September 26, 2020
“Judge Barrett’s nomination has merely renewed attention to a fundamental conflict, centuries underway, between Catholicism and the American ethos.”
The real conflict is between the NY Times and their narrowly educated writers and the American ethos.
Dictatorship of the Elite?
— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) September 27, 2020
More tweets:
For many left-wing feminists, ACB’s nomination is personal. She embodies the rebuttal to the feminist lies they’ve built their life on: that in order to be accomplished and fulfilled, you must sacrifice faith, marriage and children. It’s gotta be hard to watch.
— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) September 26, 2020
How many weeks must we wait to find out what vile things Amy Coney Barrett did to Christine Blasey Ford?
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) September 26, 2020
Seeing a few politicos who for years championed a conservative court go on the attack against Amy Coney Barrett in personal terms because OrangeManBad™️ suggests they either never really believed what they said or Trump has truly broken them.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) September 26, 2020
It's as if someone had asked, "Gosh, what could we possibly do to get Catholic women excited to vote Republican in November?"
Thanks, RBG!
— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) September 26, 2020
My eight-year-old son said, “Amy Coney Barrett created climate change by having 7 children, and it’s racist to rescue black kids from Haiti, and she will take my right to have an abortion if/when I choose to become a woman!”
I had no answer and was literally shaking.
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) September 27, 2020
Amy Coney Barrett has helped more Haitian children than The Clinton Foundation. https://t.co/AM2TDW57YE
— The Red-Headed Libertarian ™ (@TRHLofficial) September 26, 2020
Tags: abortion, Amy Coney Barrett, Antonin Scalia, Catholics, Democrats, Donald Trump, Social Justice Warriors, Supreme Court, video
“Amy Coney Barrett has helped more Haitian children than The Clinton Foundation.”
Ouch! That definitely leaves a mark.