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116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 1156 

Condemning attacks on Judge Amy Coney Barrett. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020 

Mr. BIGGS (for himself, Mr. FLEISCHMANN, Mr. KING of Iowa, Mr. GOSAR, 

Mr. PERRY, Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. GIBBS, Mr. RIGGLEMAN, Mr. BISHOP of 

North Carolina, Mr. SCHWEIKERT, Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania, Mr. 

BUDD, Mr. EMMER, Mr. LAMBORN, Mr. DAVIDSON of Ohio, Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana, and Mr. BANKS) submitted the following resolution; 

which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

RESOLUTION 

Condemning attacks on Judge Amy Coney Barrett. 

Whereas Amy Coney Barrett served as a law clerk in the 

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; 

Whereas Amy Coney Barrett served as a law clerk in the Supreme Court; 

Whereas Amy Coney Barrett served as a professor at Notre 

Dame School of Law for 15 years; 

Whereas, on May 8, 2017, President Donald J. Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Court of 

Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; 


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Whereas, on October 31, 2017, Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed by the Senate to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit with bipartisan support; 

Whereas, on September 26, 2020, President Donald J. 

Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court; 

Whereas Judge Amy Coney Barrett has successfully balanced 

faith, family, and professional responsibilities, including 

adopting two children from Haiti; 

Whereas Judge Amy Coney Barrett loves the Constitution 

and respects the original intent of America’s Founding 

Fathers in drafting the Constitution and Bill of Rights; 

Whereas, since the start of her Senate confirmation hearing 

in 2017, Judge Amy Coney Barrett has faced unwarranted attacks on her constitutional right to exercise her 

religious faith; 

Whereas Senator Diane Feinstein attacked Judge Amy Coney 

Barrett’s faith during her 2017 Senate confirmation 

hearing by stating ‘‘the dogma lives loudly within you’’; 

Whereas Senator Mazie Hirono recently stated that Judge 

Amy Coney Barrett’s religious views should not be offlimits in the upcoming Supreme Court confirmation hearings; 

Whereas in a recent Committee hearing in the House of Representatives, a Member of Congress stated that ‘‘(Catholics) shouldn’t have a monopoly on the bench’’; 

Whereas a recent Reuters Politics headline about Judge Amy 

Coney Barrett read: ‘‘Handmaid’s Tale? U.S. Supreme 

Court candidate’s religious community under scrutiny.’’; 


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Whereas a Newsweek expose ́ on a religious group that Judge 

Amy Coney Barrett belongs to was forced to print a correction because the headline of the article falsely stated 

that this group inspired ‘‘The Handmaid’s Tale’’; 

Whereas since Judge Amy Coney Barrett became a leading 

contender to fill the recently vacated seat on the Supreme 

Court, her family has come under increased attacks; 

Whereas a recent tweet from Ibram X. Kendi, a professor 

and author, attacked Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s decision to adopt two international children, reading, ‘‘Some 

White colonizers ‘adopted’ Black children. They ‘civilized’ 

these ‘savage’ children in the ‘superior’ ways of White 

people, while using them as props in their lifelong pictures of denial, while cutting the biological parents of 

these children out of the picture of humanity.’’; 

Whereas John Lee Brougher, a director of a political action 

committee, tweeted, ‘‘As an adoptee, I need to know more 

about the circumstances of how Amy Coney Barrett came 

to adopt her children, and the treatment of them since. 

Transracial adoption is fraught with trauma and potential for harm, and everything I see here is deeply concerning.’’; 

Whereas Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a historian, tweeted, ‘‘. . . many 

authoritarians seized children of color for adoption by 

White Christians. Pinochets’s regime did this with indigenous kids and Nazis took Aryan looking Poles for German families. Trump takes migrant kids for adoption by 

Evangelicals.’’; 

Whereas Vanessa Grigoriadis, a podcast cofounder, tweeted, 

‘‘I guess one of the things I don’t understand about Amy 

Comey Barrett is how a potential Supreme Court justice 


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can also be a loving, present mom to seven kids? Is this 

like the Kardashians stuffing nannies in the closet and 

pretending they’ve drawn their own baths for their kids’’; 

Whereas Dana Houle, a Democratic political consultant, 

tweeted, ‘‘So, here’s a Q: Does the press even investigate 

details of Barrett’s adoptions from Haiti? Some adoptions from Haiti were legit. Many were sketchy as hell. 

And if press learned they were unethical & maybe illegal 

adoptions, would they report it? Or not bc it involves her 

children’’; 

Whereas Judge Amy Coney Barrett has faced increasingly vicious attacks on her character; and 

Whereas Diane Warren, a songwriter, tweeted, ‘‘Amy is like 

a hybrid of Aunt Lydia and a Stepford wife’’: Now, 

therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) condemns any attempt to impose an uncon3 stitutional religious test on Judge Amy Coney Bar4 rett or any other individual seeking election or ap5 pointment to public office; 

6 (2) condemns any attempt to disparage Judge 

7 Amy Coney Barrett’s constitutional right to exercise 

8 her religious faith; 

9 (3) condemns any attack on any member of 

10 Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s family or her selfless 

11 decision to adopt two children from Haiti; and 


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1 (4) supports the Senate’s constitutional advise 

2 and consent process on the confirmation of Judge 

3 Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. 

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