I don't know enough about Amy Coney Barrett to have an opinion on her for the USSC, but the difference between the twitter impression and the Wikipedia impression is remarkable
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Probably the biggest problem with her is that she's somewhat young and hasn't spent much time on the 7th circuit, which means there's less opinion to scrutinize and that she could be on the Supreme Court for decades
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What people seem to love or hate about her is that she's a very devoted conservative Catholic in her personal life, but frankly she seems to have handled concerns about that just about as well as anyone could be expected to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Coney_Barrett …
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This is the discussion that should be happeninghttps://twitter.com/J0hndom/status/1307711086272172032 …
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For my part, I have a pretty middling and not very exciting layperson's position on stare decisis. I'm not at all thrilled with strict constitutional originalism, but am way less comfortable with fresh precedent-setting at the level of the USSC than a lot of people seem to be
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USSC decisions have been 5-4 19% of the time since 2000, and unanimous 36% of the time. Still a big deal, but justices are much less partisan than politicians. Mitch would be livid if GOP congress members were this dispassionate.
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