The Growing Influence of the Supreme Court

Published October 9, 2020 10:30am ET



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Judge Amy Coney Barrett was nominated to the Supreme Court following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. With only weeks until the 2020 presidential election, liberals and progressives have lambasted President Trump for attempting to fill the seat so close to Election Day. Those who oppose Barrett’s nomination view her as too extreme, highlighting either her Catholic faith or just that, by virtue, she’s a conservative woman and jurist who subscribes to the judicial philosophy of being both an originalist and a textualist, part of the Antonin Scalia school of thought. How would those judicial philosophies play out if confirmed?

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