Amy Coney Barrett
Today, Explained
Vox
4.3 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Last week, Ian Millheiser, who covers the Supreme Court for Vox, told me that President |
| 0:07.5 | Trump would probably choose Judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
| 0:13.9 | on the Supreme Court. |
| 0:15.2 | And over the weekend, that's exactly what happened in Tellus who she is. |
| 0:24.3 | Sure. |
| 0:25.3 | So, Judge Barrett is a young and very conservative judge. |
| 0:29.7 | She's only been a judge for about three years. |
| 0:32.0 | Three years. |
| 0:33.0 | Three years. |
| 0:34.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:35.0 | She was also a law professor for nearly two decades and so she has a thick scholarly output. |
| 0:40.9 | And when we look at the stuff that she wrote as a law professor, that confirms, you know, |
| 0:44.9 | I don't want to go quite so far to say that she would be the opposite of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, |
| 0:49.5 | but it's going to be a very sharp right turn on the Supreme Court if she is confirmed. |
| 0:54.8 | Hmm. |
| 0:55.8 | There's been a lot of focus on her religion. |
| 0:58.0 | Why is that? |
| 0:59.0 | Oh boy. |
| 1:00.0 | So, this is a huge can of worms. |
| 1:05.3 | Judge Barrett is Catholic. |
| 1:07.5 | If you're asking whether I take my faith seriously and I'm a faithful Catholic, I am, although |
| 1:11.9 | I would stress that my personal church affiliation or my religious belief would not bear on the |
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