Maryanne Trump Barry

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Maryanne Trump Barry (1992)

Maryanne Trump Barry (born April 5, 1937 in New York ) is an American lawyer. She is a emeritus judge at the Court of Appeal of the 3rd District Court of the USA. Her younger brother is the 45th US President Donald Trump .

childhood and education

Her parents were Fred and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump .

She studied political science at Mount Holyoke College , where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1958 . After a few years as a housewife and mother, she graduated from Columbia University with a Master of Arts degree in 1962 . She received the Juris Doctor from the Law School of Hofstra University in 1974 . Before being appointed judge, she worked for the New Jersey prosecutor, among others. She belongs to the Republican Party .

Judicial office

President Ronald Reagan proposed her as a judge in the United States District Court for the New Jersey borough in 1983, replacing Henry Curtis Meanors in the seat . It was confirmed by the US Senate on October 6, 1983. Thomas Kean , the governor at the time, had her (as Maryanne Barry) recommended and suggested. According to the NYT, Donald Trump secretly got his then attorney Roy Cohn to alert Edwin Meese (who was then a White House advisor) to his sister. Support from her brother played a role, according to Barry himself.

In 1992 she published a training video for aspiring criminal judges. In 1993 she decided in the case of the Piscataway School Board v. Taxman - it was about two equally qualified teachers hired on the same day, one black, one white. The decision to fire whites due to diversity has been challenged by a government agency. Barry confirmed the challenge. Race could only play a role in voluntary affirmative action programs when it comes to compensating for past discrimination or when minorities are currently underrepresented, which was not the case. The decision in the nationwide discussed case remained final, as the involved taxman civil rights groups would rather finance a severance payment than take the risk of a fundamental decision by the Supreme Court against affirmative action.

Chief Justice Rehnquist recommended Barry to chair the Criminal Law Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States, which she held from 1994 to 1996. President Bill Clinton proposed it in 1999 to the US Court of Appeals for the 3rd District Court of Justice (see United States Court of Appeals ). In the run-up, Clinton had had difficulties getting his candidates through in the Republican-dominated Senate. Senator Robert G. Torricelli recommended Trump Barry to him. Donald Trump himself still supported the Democrats at the time.

During the debate on her candidacy, the US Congress cited a ruling in the interests of New Jersey against pollution from the Fresh Kills Landfill landfill in New York , as well as the high-profile decision to award the insurance company Blue Cross to cover the cost of a bone marrow transplant in a young woman commit. It was also mentioned that during her tenure with the prosecution, she was the highest-ranking woman in such a position in the United States. She took over from H. Lee Sarokin and was Clinton's second nomination after Robert Raymar's nomination was not heard by the Judiciary Committee. The Senate unanimously approved Barry, and she took office in September 1999.

In 2000, she criticized a New Jersey law banning late-stage abortion as poorly worded and too vague. In the related case (Planned Parenthood of Central New Jersey v. Farmer) she formulated the majority vote and brought the law down.

She was seen as an assertive judge who had her courtroom under control. In 1989 she rejected a compromise proposal by a lower authority, which led to the conviction of two police officers for drug trafficking. She also presided over the conviction of Louis Manna , a Genovese family mob boss charged with a murder conspiracy against John Gotti .

In 2011, Barry achieved so-called senior status. This enabled her (see retirement ) to continue speaking law, but the seat at the court could be filled again. Her successor was Patty Shwartz .

On February 11, 2019, Barry stepped down from the judge's office. There was an investigation into whether she was involved in tax evasion with her siblings and abused her judicial office. The investigation was closed without the allegation being proven.

Public role

Sandra Day O'Connor honored her with an award named after O'Connor from the Seton Hall University School of Law for women in the US judiciary.

Fairfield University , a private Catholic university , awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2011 and received a $ 4 million donation from Barry in 2016 for a center for Jesuit spirituality. The Evangelical Presbyterian Barry was associated with Father von Arx, President of Fairfield. She has visited the Scottish island of Lewis and Harris , where her mother Mary Anne MacLeod Trump was born, several times. In 2015 she donated 210,000 euros for a nursing home and hospice in Stornoway .

Barry is considered to be moderately conservative. During the internal party primary for the 2016 presidential election , Donald Trump, when asked about the nomination of judges for the Supreme Court , did not initially commit himself and jokingly named his sister, who was over 70 years old, as a possible candidate. Donald Trump's primary rivals Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio took their liberal stance on abortion ( Pro-Choice ) and their mention by Trump as an opportunity to question Donald Trump's stance on this issue. Cruz called Barry a "hard-core pro-abortion liberal judge" in this context.

In a July 2020 book by her niece Mary L. Trump about Donald Trump, Maryanne Trump Barry was quoted as saying about her brother (which the author had secretly recorded as a sound document): His goddamned tweet and lying, oh my God [...] It's the phoniness and this cruelty. ("His goddamn tweets and lies, oh my god ... It's the falsehood and that cruelty."). She went on to explain that her brother was only accepted into the University of Pennsylvania because someone had taken the entrance exam in his place.

Personal

Barry was married to David Desmond, a United States Air Force officer, from 1960 to 1980 . In 1982 she married John Joseph Barry, a New Jersey lawyer like her. Her second husband died in 2000. From her first divorced marriage, she has a son, David William Desmond (* 1960), who works as a psychologist . Barry lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and has an apartment on Fifth Avenue in New York.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ At the bar . In: The New York Times . 4th December 1992.
  2. ↑ This is how Donald Trump's sister works. In: tagesanzeiger.ch/. Retrieved December 3, 2016 .
  3. ^ History of the Federal Judiciary . Federal Judicial Center .
  4. ^ A b c d e f g h i Jason Horowitz, "Familiar Talk on Women, From an Unfamiliar Trump," New York Times , Aug. 18, 2015.
  5. ^ Maryanne Trump Barry, Federal Judicial Center, Publications and Media Division: Criminal trial procedure. Publications and Media Division, Federal Judicial Center; National Audiovisual Center [distributor], January 1, 1992, accessed December 4, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Richard F. Tomasson, Faye J. Crosby, Sharon D. Herzberger: Affirmative Action: The Pros and Cons of Policy and Practice . Rowman & Littlefield, 2001, ISBN 978-0-7425-0210-9 , pp. 162 ( google.de [accessed December 4, 2016]).
  7. ↑ Biskupic, Joan . "Rights Groups Pay To Settle Bias Case" , The Washington Post , November 22, 1997, p. A01. Accessed June 19, 2007.
  8. ^ Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 106th Congress, First Session Vol. 145 Part 15 . Government Printing Office, p. 21247 ( google.de [accessed December 4, 2016]).
  9. ^ Al Kamen, " When President Clinton did a very nice thing for Donald Trump, " The Washington Post (7/30/2015).
  10. ↑ Matt Flegenheimer: Ted Cruz Calls Donald Trump's Sister, a Judge, to 'Extremist'. In: The New York Times - First Draft. February 15, 2016, accessed December 3, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Jim Shay: Trump's sister gives $ 4M to Fairfield University. In: Connecticut Post , September 14, 2016.
  12. ↑ Peter Geoghegan: Trump's Forgotten Scottish Roots. In: Deutsche Welle , May 31, 2016.
  13. ^ Joel Mathis: 4 Things to Know About Donald Trump's Federal Judge Sister. In: Philadelphia Magazine , February 16, 2016.
  14. ↑ Meet Donald Trump's sister, the tough, respected federal judge Ted Cruz called a 'radical pro-abortion extremist'. In: The Washington Post , March 8, 2016.
  15. ↑ Donald Trump's sister says he's an 'unprincipled phoney'. BBC News, August 23, 2020, accessed August 23, 2020 .
  16. ↑ David Desmond Sr. | WikiTree: The FREE Family Tree .
  17. ↑ MARYANNE DESMOND WEDS JOHN BARRY . In: The New York Times , December 27, 1982. 
  18. ↑ John Barry, 60, Trial and Appellate Lawyer . In: The New York Times , April 18, 2000. 
  19. ^ John Barry death notice , The New York Times , April 18, 2000
  20. ↑ Lisa Aitken, David Desmond . In: The New York Times . May 31, 1992.
  21. ↑ Gwenda Blair , The Trumps , Simon & Schuster , 2015, p. 609.
  22. ^ Wills Robinson: Now Trump's older sister gets threatening letter . In: Daily Mail Online . 2016 ( dailymail.co.uk [accessed December 4, 2016]).
personal data
SURNAME Barry, Maryanne Trump
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trump, Maryanne (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer, judge at the Court of Appeal of the 3rd District Court of the USA
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH new York