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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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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Too be clear - I have no well-formed opinion of neither her nor those legal theories. I’m very aware of my own ignorance.
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Someone whos opinion on twitter I admire knew her personally though and thinks favorably of her personally .. so counts for something!https://twitter.com/j0hndom/status/1307367483788144646?s=21 …
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Right, not clear to me that originalism vs Living Constitution is identical to partisan right vs left. Even if a justice favors LC, i would hope they’re doing it because it improves the meta, not for achieving partisan ends.
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It would be great if things could be interpreted the way they were written originally. The federal government should be doing very little, and the States and the People should bear the responsibility to govern themselves.
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The fact of the matter is that the progressive administrative state does not long survive with a Court that is regularly and strictly applying mostly originalists and textualists analysis
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