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Amy Coney Barrett: Listening to the Law
Inside Amy Coney Barrett’s Judicial Journey: Lessons from the Bench
Are your opinions on Supreme Court cases based on reading any portion of the cases, or just the headlines?
In her new book, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett digs deep into all that divides us.
She doubts divided Americans could agree on a new U.S. Constitution today, but she shows us the way to a new consensus.
“We should be grateful (for the Constitution) because in our current polarized political environment, I’m not sure if we could agree on a new one,” Barrett writes.
Making new laws requires “working with others to find common ground, the ability to compromise and persuade. If our fissures lie so deep that we can’t change anything, the fault lies with us, not with the Constitution.”
Five years after she joined the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Barrett’s new book, Listening to the Law, is part autobiography, part memoir, part history, and mainly a primer on leadership.
What is the problem with only following precedents and traditions? “We would be defaulting to the vision of the past because we can’t envision a future together. That would show not that the past binds us, but that we are paralyzed by the…
