# Amy Coney Barrett

Amy Coney Barrett (born 1972 Amy Vivian Coney) is an American lawyer, jurist, and former academic who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and was on Donald Trump's short list for Supreme Court picks.

## Quotes

* It allows (indeed it requires) the recusal of judges whose convictions keep them from doing their job. This is a good solution.
** Catholic Judges in Capital Cases, co-written in 1998 with John H. Garvey, authored as "Amy V. Coney"
* I am not here on a mission to destroy the (Affordable Care Act). I’m just here to apply the law and adhere to the rule of law... No hints, no previews, no forecasts (quoting Ruth Bader Ginsburg)... I apply the law, I follow the law. You make the policy... I would not discriminate on the basis of sexual preference.
** Quoted in Amy Coney Barrett dodges abortion, healthcare and election law questions, Daniel Strauss, The Guardian, (13 Oct 2020)
* Both Roe and Casey emphasize the burdens of parenting, and insofar as you and many of your amici focus on the ways in which forced parenting, forced motherhood, would hinder womens access to the workplaceand to equal opportunities, it's also focused on the consequences of parenting and the obligations of motherhood that flow from pregnancy. Why don't the safe haven laws take care of that problem?
** What Amy Coney Barrett's Roe v. Wade Remarks Get Wrong About Adoption (12/14/21 AT 7:33 AM EST)

## About

* Dogma and law are two different things, and I think whatever a religion is, it has its own dogma. The law is totally different. And I think in your case, professor, when you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you, and that’s of concern.
** Dianne Feinstein in September 2017
* Eighty-eight faculty members at the University of Notre Dame have penned an open letter to colleague and Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, asking her to halt the confirmation process until after the presidential election. The group — which does not include any instructors at Notre Dame Law School, where Barrett, 48, teaches — called on her to “take this unprecedented step” in light of three considerations... Your nomination comes at a treacherous moment in the United States. Our politics are consumed by polarization, mistrust, and fevered conspiracy theories... You have the opportunity to offer an alternative to all that by demanding that your nomination be suspended until after the election.... We’re asking a lot, we know. Should Vice-President Biden be elected, your seat on the court will almost certainly be lost. That would be painful, surely. Yet there is much to be gained in risking your seat. You would earn the respect of fair-minded people everywhere. You would provide a model of civic selflessness. And you might well inspire Americans of different beliefs toward a renewed commitment to the common good.
** Notre Dame colleagues call on Amy Coney Barrett to halt Supreme Court confirmation, New York Post, (13 October 2020)
* When she was asked about a newspaper ad she signed criticizing Roe v Wade, first reported by the Guardian, Barrett said she had “no recollection” of it and stressed she had nothing to hide... Most of the Democrats’ questioning centered on the ACA (Affordable Care Act), and how a ruling by the high court overturning the law would take healthcare away from millions of Americans... Barrett said she was not hostile to the ACA, abortion or gay rights, another area worrying progressives as the court seems set to tilt to a 6-3 conservative majority. She repeatedly denied any indication that her political views would color her rulings on the high court. (Kamala) Harris at one point asked Barrett if she had heard Trump’s vows to seat a supreme court justice who would overturn Roe v Wade and the ACA. Harris also pointed out that Trump nominated Barrett to serve as an appellate judge seven months after Barrett penned an article criticizing Justice John Roberts’ ruling upholding the ACA. Harris argued that showed Trump had been elevating Barrett to overturn the healthcare law.
** Amy Coney Barrett dodges abortion, healthcare and election law questions, Daniel Strauss, The Guardian, (13 October 2020)
* Barrett, in addition to serving as an appellate judge, is also a professor at the University of Notre Dame. Almost 100 of Barrett’s colleagues in a letter urged her to hold off on the confirmation process until after the presidential election in November.... “You are not, of course, responsible for the anti-democratic machinations driving your nomination,” the letter added.
** Amy Coney Barrett dodges abortion, healthcare and election law questions, Daniel Strauss, The Guardian, (13 October 2020)

## See also

* Samuel Alito
* Amy Coney Barrett
* Stephen Breyer
* Neil Gorsuch
* Ketanji Brown Jackson
* Elena Kagan
* Brett Kavanaugh
* Sonia Sotomayor
* John Roberts
* Clarence Thomas