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Jan 13, 2022 · Recent decisions by Justice Amy Coney Barrett. grouped by type, in alphabetical order by first party name.
Oct 27, 2020 · Just over one month after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing, the Senate voted almost entirely along party lines to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the vacant seat on the Supreme...
- Ian Millhiser
President Donald Trump nominated Barrett to the Supreme Court on September 26, 2020. Barrett was on Trump's list of potential Supreme Court nominees since 2017, almost immediately after her court of appeals confirmation.
Sep 27, 2020 · Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, has been on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals since 2017. Her short tenure as a judge has led to few noteworthy or controversial opinions.
- Criminal Defendants’ Rights
- Rights of The Incarcerated
- Privacy Rights
- Gun Rights
Barrett issued a dissent in Schmidt v. Foster, a case where a defendant’s lawyer was not allowed to participate in a pre-trial hearing to decide whether to allow reliance on the Wisconsin state-law defense of “adequate provocation” to reduce a charge from first- to second-degree homicide. The majority held that this hearing was adversarial in natur...
Barrett’s rulings also indicate that she may seek to weaken constitutional protections for incarcerated individuals. In one case, she dissented from a decision reversing the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by two incarcerated men who were seriously injured when corrections officers shot recklessly into a crowd of people after two other incarcerated ...
On a different note, Barret has issued opinions that protect people’s Fourth Amendment rights and would curtail governmental power, tending to follow precedent to affirm protections against intrusion into the private lives of citizens. For example, in U.S. v. Terry, Barrett wrote that Drug Enforcement Administration agents had violated a man’s Four...
Regarding the Second Amendment, Barrett wrote a dissenting opinion in Kanter v. Barrarguing that “history and tradition” should be relied upon to correctly understand the legislature’s authority to curtail a person’s right to bear arms. In this case, a Wisconsin man with a past felony fraud conviction was prevented, according to both Wisconsin and ...
May 10, 2024 · Amy Coney Barrett, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 2020. She was the 115th person, and the fifth woman, to serve on the Supreme Court. Barrett’s nomination and confirmation sparked political controversy on both substantive and procedural grounds.
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Oct 26, 2020 · WASHINGTON — Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative appeals court judge and protégée of former Justice Antonin Scalia, was confirmed on Monday to the Supreme Court, capping a...
