Amy Coney Barrett

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Amy Coney Barrett (2018)

Amy Vivian Coney Barrett (born January 28, 1972 in New Orleans , Louisiana ) is a US federal judge and since October 27, 2020 the 103rd Associate Justice at the Supreme Court of the United States .

Career

Barrett was born in 1972 to Mike and Linda Coney, the oldest of seven children. Her father worked as a lawyer for the Shell Oil Company , her mother Linda was a housewife. She grew up in Metairie and attended the local St. Catherine of Siena Catholic School . After graduating from St. Mary's Dominican High School in 1990 , she studied English-language literature at Rhodes College , a private liberal arts college in Memphis , Tennessee , where she received a Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude in 1994 . She then studied at the Law School of the University of Notre Dame in the US state of Indiana , and got there in 1997 as class First a Juris Doctor with honors , summa cum laude .

They then from 1997 to 1998 as a law clerk for Laurence H. Silberman , a federal judge on the District of Columbia competent federal appeals court , and from 1998 to 1999 for Antonin Scalia , Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States , active. From 1999 to 2001 she practiced with the law firm Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin in Washington, DC , and in 2002 she was appointed to the University of Notre Dame. Barrett taught there until 2017, most recently as a professor specializing in civil procedural law and constitutional law . In 2017 she was appointed judge at the Federal Court of Appeals for the seventh district (Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin), where she succeeded John Daniel Tinder .

Barrett is a member of the American Law Institute and the Conservative-Libertarian Federalist Society , which also includes the five other senior judges classified as Conservative.

Legal positions

Amy Coney Barrett is a constitutional lawyer who specializes in law interpretation. It is attributed to both the school of textualism and originalism - both of which have been criticized as "pliable and manipulable" - and in particular the grammatical-historical method of originalism, according to which the US Constitution and laws should still be interpreted in this way today as they were supposedly understood by contemporaries at the time when they were created. Her mentor Antonin Scalia , who, like Barrett, was a member of the Federalist Society, who died in 2016, also took this direction . From the point of view of the conservative jurists' association with almost 70,000 members, judges should under no circumstances create new rights by means of judicial legal training that were originally not to be found in the wording of the written constitution.

Barrett represented decidedly conservative positions as a federal judge, particularly in the controversial areas of gun law , abortion law and immigration law . Joshua Fischman and Kevin Cope of the University of Virginia School of Law analyzed 1,716 cases heard by the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals since Barrett's appointment in 2017, including 378 cases where she was involved in the decision. Despite being the most conservative of the judges currently in court by analysis, Barrett was statistically indistinguishable from the three other Trump-appointed judges and three other Republican-appointed judges. In an interview with FiveThirtyEight , Fischman said Barrett was not "off the charts," that she was "in line with other well-known, respected Conservative judges." Fischman and Cope noted that Barrett used Barrett in cases of workplace, labor and criminal discrimination closer to the center of the court, but is far more conservative in civil rights cases - a category that includes prisoner rights, claims against the government, and issues like gun rights, voting rights, and abortion rights.

Gun Law

In an objection to gun law in 2019, she stated that the ban on convicted criminals from carrying guns should not apply to those who have not committed any acts of violence. Criminals do not lose their Second Amendment rights just because they have criminal status. The state should only deprive those persons of the right to carry weapons that it considers dangerous.

abortion

Barrett is considered a staunch opponent of abortion , which she has referred to the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church as "always immoral" and tried twice as a federal judge to restrict. In a lecture at the University of Notre Dame in January 2013 on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the decision of the Supreme Court in the Roe v. According to Wade , the likelihood that the Supreme Court will revise this crucial decision on abortion is very low. The debate must therefore focus on whether abortions should be financed with public money.

immigration

In an objection from June 2020 in the Wolf v. In Cook County , she appealed against an appeals court ruling in Illinois that blocked Trump's bill that would have allowed immigration officials to deny immigrants residency permits who are likely to be on welfare.

death penalty

Your negative position on the death penalty, based on the Roman Catholic Church's stance on the death penalty , goes against President Trump's intention to have executions carried out again at the federal level after a 20-year moratorium. In a 1998 written with a colleague essay she explained, teaching-faithful Catholic judges would need for self-conscious explain when it comes to the enforcement of the death penalty.

United States Supreme Court Justice

Barrett being sworn in as US Supreme Court judge (October 2020)

Amy Coney Barrett was nominated by Donald Trump on September 26, 2020 to succeed the longtime Supreme Court Justice of the United States , Ruth Bader Ginsburg , who died on September 18, 2020, and passed on October 26, 2020 by a majority of 52 to 48 votes United States Senate upheld. Judge Clarence Thomas sworn in Barrett on the same day as the 103rd Supreme Court Justice of the White House with the Constitutional Oath . The following day, presiding judge John Roberts accepted the second Judicial Oath and she officially began serving as a judge.

Amy Coney Barrett is the third person, after Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh , to stand as a candidate for judge on the Federalist Society's nomination list presented to President Trump in 2016 by its co-chair Leonard Leo. Barrett made it onto Trump's list of potential candidates for the Supreme Court shortly after being confirmed as an appellate judge in 2017. Following Anthony Kennedy's resignation, it was announced in July 2018 that Barrett was one of the three finalists considered by the President, along with Judges Raymond Kethledge and Brett Kavanaugh, who was eventually elected. Although Trump reportedly valued Barrett, he was concerned about her lack of experience in the business world. Within the Republican Party, Barrett was held in high regard by the social conservatives, while in the Democratic Party she was viewed with great skepticism.

After Kavanaugh's appointment, Barrett continued to be seen as one of Trump's candidates for a future vacant Supreme Court seat. According to international media reports, Trump said he had "reserved" Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat for Barrett if Ginsburg should retire or die during his presidency. After Ginsburg's death on September 18, 2020, Barrett was immediately presented to the court as a favorite to succeed her.

On September 26, 2020, a few weeks before the 2020 US presidential election , President Amy Barrett nominated Ginsburg's successor to the United States Supreme Court .

The Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein , to the horror of her Democratic colleagues, several of whom called for their resignation from the Judiciary Committee, praised the nomination process as one of the “best” processes despite the party differences.

Opponents of her nomination from the women's movement warn above all about her "dangerously antiquated views on reproductive issues" and the possibility that Barrett could agree to a supreme court revision of the American abortion law. At Barrett's hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee , Democratic Party senators expressed concern that they might be the decisive voice in any future decision on the Affordable Care Act , which the Republican Party seeks to abolish. In a 2017 article, she criticized Chief Justice John Roberts , who voted with the liberal judges of the Supreme Court in 2012, preventing the law from being repealed as unconstitutional.

On October 26, 2020, the Senate upheld Barrett's nomination for the Supreme Court by a majority of 52 to 48 votes. With the exception of Susan Collins (Maine), the Republican senators voted unanimously for Barrett. Collins, along with all Democratic Party senators, voted against Barrett. Shortly thereafter, Barrett took her oath of office. With her inauguration, the ratio of conservative versus liberal judges at the Supreme Court shifted to 6 to 3.

Family and denomination

Married couple Berett with six of their children and married couple Trump on September 26, 2020 during the nomination

Barrett has been married to lawyer Jesse M. Barrett, who is also a graduate of Notre Dame Law School , since 1999 . Her husband was an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana in South Bend, Indiana , where the couple lives, and is now a partner at a private law firm. The couple has seven children, including two originally from Haiti native adopted children . One of her biological children has Down syndrome .

Amy Barrett is of Roman Catholic faith and is counted on the religious right . Together with her husband, she belongs to a little-known charismatic splinter group, the new spiritual community " People of Praise " (for example: "People of Praise"). The group consists mostly of Catholics, but also practices speaking in tongues and spirit baptisms . Its 1,800 adult members live in the United States and the Caribbean and make pledges of obedience to spiritual leaders. The leadership group is male and the man is seen as the head of the family. Premarital intercourse , same-sex marriage and unmarried partnerships are rejected as unbiblical. The community does not provide information about its members.

Web links

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Barrett, Amy Coney
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barrett, Amy Vivian Coney (full name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION US federal judge
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH New Orleans , Louisiana