The Guardian
What holds, and what fails, under pressure, standards and accountability.
Amy Coney Barrett fits the Guardian archetype, a leader defined by fidelity to institutional method and doctrinal continuity. A former Notre Dame law professor and clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia, she built her reputation on originalism and textualism, approaches that treat the written law as the fixed boundary of judicial power.
“Yeah, that's right, and so many people before me have poked at feminism in this way, right? It's, you know, the imitation of kind of the worst kind of men. And, you know, you saw that, especially, I think, at the Women's March right after President Trump, in prior times.”
“Thank you. Yeah, you know, she is just really an incredible woman. I mean, putting aside the possibility of her serving on the Supreme Court, if you spend any time watching some of these really beautiful videos, video interviews of her that are on YouTube, you know, talking about her family, her marriage, and you just see a real heroic wo…”
“About these issues where people can only see sort of an understanding of women's rights through the lens of 1970s, especially RBG feminism, that it's hard for them to understand the possibility of thinking about women's rights without RO sort of as the centerpiece. And so my book really goes on.”
“In order to fulfill our duties. And that becomes the way that the early women's rights advocates think about rights. And it's a understanding that has very, very kind of ancient roots is, you know, rights and freedom are for the purpose of wisdom and virtue.”
Wikiquote: “Public record read”
LISTEN AT THE SOURCE ↗THE RECORD IS CHECKABLE