Amy Coney Barrett Reportedly Voted Against Taking Up Dobbs Case That Overturned Constitutional Right To Abortion
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It’s a mistake by ignorant conservatives and wishful liberals to believe she’s moderating. She’s exactly the person I met 25 years ago: principled, absolutely conservative, not interested in shifting.
— Professor Noah Feldman of Harvard Law, in comments given to the New York Times, on Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s conservative allegiances, despite her joining with liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan 82 percent of the time in the Supreme Court’s current term. In fact, according to the Times’ reporting, Barrett originally voted against taking up Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, before she ultimately joined the high court’s conservatives to upend reproductive freedom in America.
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