Amy Coney Barrett will likely be a swing vote on security issues

President Trump has nominated Amy Coney Barrett to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Viewed as a so-called “originalist” jurist in the vein of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, Barrett looks first to the nation’s founding documents and statements from the Founding Fathers. She is sure to win conservative favor. Still, Barrett may well shift the court’s balance in a more libertarian direction on security issues involving individual rights. While we have a relatively limited stock of security opinions by which to judge her, we do have an indication of a legal mind that defers to the individual over the state in this area.