The Best Defense of Justice Amy Coney Barrett: No One Else Could Have Been Confirmed To Replace RBG Before The Election

The Best Defense of Justice Amy Coney Barrett: No One Else Could Have Been Confirmed To Replace RBG Before The Election

Senator Mitch McConnell is one of the most important Americans of the twenty-first Century. But for his leadership, I am reasonably confident that President Obama would have been able to fill Justice Scalia's seat. And had Donald Trump not been able to run on filling that vacancy, I am reasonably confident that Hillary Clinton would have prevailed. And then Clinton would have promptly replaced Justice Ginsburg, and maybe even Justices Kennedy or…

In Defense of Amy Coney Barrett: An Examination of Her Record

Justice Barrett's presence has fundamentally shifted the center of the Court. For decades, conservatives could only win by fitting their cases into the politically liberal framework of Anthony Kennedy. Now—thanks to Barrett—the path to victory is to fit it into the judicially conservative framework of Antonin Scalia. That alone is a political and jurisprudential victory, even if it doesn’t result in litigation victories in all cases.