Amy Coney Barrett Joins Liberals to Defy Trump—Again
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The conservative justice got blasted by MAGAworld for an earlier ruling against the Trump administration, but the backlash didn’t stop her from doing it again.

Summary

Justice Amy Coney Barrett sided with the Supreme Court’s three liberal justices to co-sign key parts of Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s blistering dissent in a 5-4 ruling allowing Trump to resume deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members.

The four female justices warned the deportations could “have life or death consequences” for detainees sent to El Salvador’s CECOT mega-prison without judicial review.

Right-wing figures erupted, branding Barrett a “DEI hire” and “disgraceful.”

Influencers like Mike Cernovich and Charlie Kirk accused her of betraying conservative values despite past praise.

  • celeste@kbin.earth
    116·
    6 days ago

    In March, she and Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s three liberal justices in holding that Elon Musk’s nebulous cost-cutting initiative DOGE could not unilaterally freeze $2 billion in congressionally approved aid for work that had already been completed.

    “She is evil, chosen solely because she checked identity politics boxes,” Cernovich wrote. “Another DEI hire. It always ends badly.”

    Notably, Roberts was not accused of being a turncoat—just Coney Barrett.

    Hmmmm wonder why. Man, she did her job and got roe v wade overturned, and they’ll still outright call her “evil.”

    • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
      56·
      6 days ago

      Another DEI hire.

      They will not be satisfied until the only people allowed to earn a living or have any power are straight white cis men. It’s becoming blatantly obvious they don’t give a shit about “merit”. Woman/minority/LGBT = DEI no matter how they got there. They could have every qualification in the world and it wouldn’t be enough to avoid the DEI label.

      • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
        20·
        6 days ago

        Wrong. This is fascism, there must always be another enemy. Cis white men will eventually become the “wrong kind” of cis white men. They will one day be labeled “impure”, and find themselves under the barrel

        • themoken@startrek.website
          13·
          6 days ago

          Yep. If they somehow were left with only cis white men, they’d redefine cis, white, or man to divide the remaining people.