Amy Coney Barrett’s Hypocrisy
She is what she proclaims not to be; a partisan hack
Speaking at the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville last month, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett opened her speech saying;
“My goal today is to convince you that this court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks,” further explaining that “judicial philosophies are not the same as political parties.”
One wonders why a United States Supreme Court Justice would need to convince anyone that they aren’t a partisan hack. But then she expressed a common conservative politician’s lament by blaming “the media” for how it covers the courts.
Well. I’m not buying any of this, and neither should you.
Justices frequently proclaim during their confirmation hearings that they will honor past precedent.
So let’s talk about the precedent set prior to the Honorable Justice Barrett’s nomination, specifically the justification Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell claimed while holding up Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland on March 16, 2016.
As we all know, McConnell’s faulty argument was that with ten months left in Obama’s term, the nomination to fill Antonin Scalia’s seat should be made by the next president. So by McConnell’s machinations…
