MAGA turns on Trump-appointed Justice Amy Coney Barrett and give her brutal label as she threatens to upend SCOTUS
A new analysis appears to confirm conservative fears that Donald Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has often swung to the left in her rulings.
Many allies of the president have even referred to the justice - who has seven children, including two adopted from Haiti - as a 'DEI hire' and there are reports Trump himself has complained about Barrett's rulings.
The associate justice was chosen by Trump and rushed through confirmation by Senate Republicans in 2020 ahead of the November presidential election.
But since her appointment to replace liberal hero Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Barrett has joined her liberal colleagues on several occasions for rulings that have hampered Trump and his second term agenda.
GOP outcry toward Barrett includes her judging against the blocking of foreign aid and against delaying Trump's sentenced on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records just days before his inauguration.
That has led the liberal New York Times to call Barrett: 'One of the few people in the country to check the actions of the president.'
A new study of Barrett's first half-decade on the court prepared for the paper finds those worries may not be out of tune with her record from the bench.
Several law professors determined that Barrett doesn't come close to conservative icon Antonin Scalia and 'is showing signs of leftward drift' as she plays 'an increasingly central role on the court.
They cite her agreeing with liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, specifically, 82 percent of the time during her second term, up from 39 percent in her first.
Her central role includes writing her rulings separately from the other justices more frequently.
Not only has she aligned 'more frequently with liberal majorities,' she is the Republican 'least likely to support Trump' in cases that involve the president himself.
She has voted with liberal majorities 91 percent of the time while voting with conservative majorities just 84 percent of the time, though given the 6-3 conservative bend of the court, there are more conservative than liberal victories.
Mike Davis, a Trump ally and conservative legal activist, is greatly disappointed in Barrett.
'We had too much hope for her. She doesn't have enough courage,' said Davis, who was criticized by phone earlier this year by conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch for Davis' comments about Barrett on Steve Bannon's podcast.
Davis called Barrett 'scared of her own shadow.'
'She is a rattled law professor with her head up her a**,' Davis, a former clerk to Gorsuch, told Bannon.
Several law professors determined that Barrett doesn't come close to conservative icon Antonin Scalia and 'is showing signs of leftward drift' as she plays 'an increasingly central role on the court
He also blasted her as 'weak and timid' to NBC News.
Right-wing influencer Eric Daugherty attacked the justice in a series of tweets as an 'anti-Trump judge' and a 'big problem.'
'Barrett deceived people into thinking she was a reliable constitutionalist. The power has gone to her head. It happens with frightening regularity the last half century,' posted conservative radio host Mark Levin.
Megyn Kelly went off on her on her podcast as 'a little squishy.'
'As a female who leans right, I'm kind of sick of like, the female conservatives who get appointed to the Supreme Court, Sandra Day O'Connor, now Amy Coney Barrett, like being too squishy,' she ranted.
'Get somebody with some rhetorical balls who will hold as fiercely to conservative principles in the judiciary as the left wing does,' she added.
However, Noah Feldman, a friend of Barrett's and a Harvard law professor, claim the hype of Barrett's left leanings are overstated by both sides.
'It's a mistake by ignorant conservatives and wishful liberals to believe she's moderating,' Feldman said.
'She's exactly the person I met 25 years ago: principled, absolutely conservative, not interested in shifting.'
In January, Barrett was among the same five-justice majority that ruled against Trump's request to halt him being sentenced on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records just days before his inauguration.
But Barrett has also been a swing vote siding with conservatives as well. She was in the majority which overturned Roe v Wade in 2023.
She was also in the 6-3 conservative majority last June that ruled presidents have some immunity from prosecution for actions taken while in office.
Trump nominated Barrett to replace late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court after she passed away in September 2020.
In announcing her nomination, Trump said Barrett was going to be 'fantastic.'
'No matter the issue, no matter the case before her, I am supremely confident that Judge Barrett will issue rulings based solely upon a fair reading of the law,' the president said at the time.
Despite refusing to confirm an Obama Supreme Court nominee ahead of the 2016 election, Senate Republicans in the majority ramped through Barrett's confirmation.
The move solidified a conservative supermajority on the country's highest court just weeks before Joe Biden won the election and Democrats flipped the Senate.
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