- What would we have in a Trump court?
Who knows? (laughing)
- [Mia] That's Amy Coney Barrett,
At just 48 years old,
Barrett, a conservative anti-choice Catholic,
for several generations to come.
I'm comedian Mia Jackson,
to an attorney for the Shell Oil Company and a homemaker.
just one year after Ruth Bader Ginsburg
took her seat in the highest court of the land.
In the fall of '94,
Barrett arrived at Notre Dame Law School,
which, at the time,
led by then professor John Garvey,
who was coming off a stint in Reagan's Justice Department.
A former faculty member of the law school told Politico,
Along with Garvey's rubber stamp of approval,
The article also touched on abortion
and suggested the case for recusal
was even stronger in that instance.
In 1997, she
Barrett then went on to clerk for several circuit judges,
and eventually,
who she seemingly picked up her originalist views from.
Like Scalia, Barrett is an originalist,
meaning she interprets the constitution
as she believes it was understood
at the time it was written.
You know, when guns fired three rounds a minute,
when people were enslaved,
and when the population was only four million.
people aren't enslaved,
and guns fire as many rounds as they want a minute.
After Barrett's clerkships,
she returned to Notre Dame to teach.
She was a member of the University Faculty For Life
who, according to the group,
and is
- We are so fortunate, as women living in 2019,
to have so many more doors open to us and so many choices.
- [Mia] Speaking of all the choices women seemingly have,
Barrett would ostensibly do everything in her power
to limit what's left.
Perhaps because she literally belongs
to a close knit
and are paired with an advisor called a head for men
and a handmaid for women.
Although the latter moniker was abandoned
after the Atwood scribed Handmaid's Tale took off.
When she's not hanging out with her
definitely-not-in-a-cult buddies,
she's doing things
that would seemingly make them very proud.
Barrett spoke at a Notre Dame campus event.
Notre Dame Magazine says,
Just a few years later in 2015, she signed on to a letter
which deeply opposed marriage equality.
With views like these, in 2017,
Barrett was appointed by President Trump
to serve as a United States Circuit Judge
on the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
During her confirmation hearing,
Senator Dianne Feinstein pointed to Barrett's article
which argued catholic judges should recuse themselves
in cases involving the death penalty and abortion.
- The dogma lives loudly within you.
And that's of concern.
- [Mia] Barrett was confirmed,
and although her stint on the bench has been short,
she's already considered two abortion cases
and ruled against abortion rights in both.
- Under my administration,
we will always defend the very first right
in the declaration of independence,
and that is the right to life.
- [Mia] On September 26th, 2020,
Trump announced Amy Coney Barrett would be his nomination
to fill the seat left open by Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
A seat which fought so hard for equality and women's rights
will instead be filled by a member
who's apparently committed to undoing
a woman's right to choose.
2020.
It's lit.
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