Amy Coney Barrett Tears Into Trump Official to Defend Liberal Justice at Supreme Court

[RandySF]

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett ripped into President Donald Trump’s solicitor general on Thursday for disrespecting one of the high court’s liberal justices.

Barrett, who was appointed by Trump in 2020 but has recently drawn the ire of MAGA, slammed Solicitor General Dean John Sauer for giving what she felt was an insufficient response to Justice Elena Kagan, an appointee of Barack Obama.

Barrett stepped in after Sauer’s answer and asked, “Sir, are you really going to answer Justice Kagan by saying there’s no way to do this expeditiously?”

She added, “You resisted Justice Kagan when she said, ‘Could the individual plaintiffs form a class...’ Were a class appropriate for class certification, you can see that it could resolve the question quickly?”

Sauer, who represented Trump in his federal obstruction case, responded: “Yes, absolutely it could do so. I mean, we obviously dispute that...”



https://www.thedailybeast.com/amy-coney-barrett-tears-into-trump-official-to-defend-liberal-justice-elena-kagan-at-supreme-court/

[JohnSJ]

1. The only ones who have balls on that court are the women. The men on that court are pusillanimous cowards

with two of them blatantly doing whatever the emperor in the WH wants, even when it explicitly violates the Constitution.

[Onthefly]

6. Pusillanimous is a perfect descriptor

[madinmaryland]

7. Rec'd for the word "pusillanimous" !!

[crud]

2. Our three ladies are doing a great job

I'm sure they have been working on Barrett in chambers in many ways, by showing her more respect than Barrett's fellow republican justices. They have been winning her over to their side more and more.

[yardwork]

5. Maybe Barrett is just an ethical jurist.

[tanyev]

8. Could be she's been in a right wing bubble most of her life

and never had serious interactions with liberals in a professional capacity before.

[musette_sf]

3. Justice Kagan built bridges with Scalia

and she may well be doing the same with Barrett. If anyone on the liberal side of the Court can do this effectively, Kagan can. If RumpCo isn’t already regretting shoving Barrett down our throats, they may be now.

And I hope she reminds Barrett about the bagel gift basket from her graduating class at HCHS that she declined to accept on ethical grounds, you know, while the topic of unethical “gifts” is hot.

https://forward.com/fast-forward/546201/elena-kagan-clarence-thomas-bagels-and-lox/

[musette_sf]

4. I just realized

that Kagan and Barrett share the bond of having attended all-girls’ high schools. I knew Kagan did - she was in the last all-girls graduating class at HCHS - but it just dawned on me that Barrett might have as well. Sure enough, she went to a Catholic all-girls high school in NOLA.

[question everything]

9. K&R