Prominent legal conservatives on Friday sought to tamp down a wave of sudden criticism directed at Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett over her vote to reject President Donald Trump’s attempt to freeze nearly $2 billion in foreign aid.
The justice doesn’t deserve the vitriol directed toward her.
The court rarely sides with death row inmates, so this rebuke to dishonest prosecutors is a remarkable victory in the fight against unconstitutional executions. But the case has several unusual features that make it more of an outlier than the turn of a new leaf.
Hours later, Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett—who was nominated by Trump ... "The application for stay presented to Justice Sotomayor and by her referred to the Court is denied," the ...
She was the only member of the court appointed by the president to vote against his emergency request to freeze foreign aid.