"Amy Coney Barrett has written a book. She's the latest in a long line of Supreme Court justices supplementing their public service salary with millions of dollars - reportedly a $2 million advance worth, to be precise - despite her meager record as a milquetoast functionary for a reactionary project that she doesn't seem to understand. And that seems to be the identity Barrett wants to cultivate."
"Diving into a copy of the manuscript, CNN's Joan Biskupic pulls out a series of passages where Barrett tries to drape herself in the role of a powerless cog in the judicial process. Whether she's being honest with herself or this is just a bit is up for debate, but the memoir sections reveal Barrett is certainly not the proto-David Souter that liberals imagined her to be over the summer."
Amy Coney Barrett accepted a reported $2 million payment and portrays herself as a powerless cog within the judicial process. She characterizes abortion as a "complicated moral debate" distinct from rights such as marriage, sex, procreation, and contraception. Her judicial record indicates minimal evidence-based engagement with public-opinion data on reproductive rights. At the time of Dobbs, about 62% approved of abortion versus 36% opposed, a level of public support higher than interracial marriage had before Loving. White support for interracial marriage was roughly 5% in the decade before Loving and did not reach majority acceptance until the late 1990s.
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