Because Amy Coney Barrett deserves to replace RBG and not to be discriminated against for her faith
“A judge must apply the law, not engage in politics”. Amy Coney Barrett comes up with a sentence that should be carved in every court, especially in the Italian ones. But for the left the extraordinary talent of a woman is not enough … if she is Catholic …
The appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court is the masterstroke of the president of the United States that closes his first four years. And it is a bet, a bet that could reward him with a good haul of votes in the November elections.
The appointment of a new judge was made necessary after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, RBG, on September 18. Ginsburg was nominated in 1993 by Bill Clinton and throughout her career she has distinguished herself for her progressive positions, in particular, in the field of civil rights, which has led her to become an undisputed icon of the American liberal world and beyond. only. Trump immediately announced that he would replace her, as the Constitution requires, unleashing the wrath of the Democrats and their supporters, according to whom it would be up to the president who will be elected in November "to fill that seat".
The incumbent president, thanks to the support of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Republican group, continued on his way, aware that he would start a tough fight in the upper house. Two favorites emerged immediately for the SCOTUS position: Barbara Lagoa, daughter of Cubans who fled the Castro regime, United States Court of Appeals Judge for the Eleventh District in Florida, and already the first Hispanic woman to be named Supreme Court Justice of Florida, and precisely Amy Coney Barrett, since 2017 district judge at the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh District in Chicago.
Donald Trump announced Barrett's appointment in a ceremony at the White House Rose Garden on Saturday afternoon. ACB, as it is already nicknamed, is 48 years old (it would become the youngest "justice" , after Clarence Thomas in 1991 at 43), has seven children (two of which are adopted and to whom the president addressed during his speech : “Thank you for sharing your incredible mom with our country” ) and is a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, where he also studied. Prior to teaching, she worked as a law clerk for Antonin Scalia at the Supreme Court, among others, and Barrett belongs to the originalist school of thought of the influential conservative judge, who passed away in 2016. She reiterated her connection with Scalia herself during the speech given after the appointment, in fact she quoted him saying: “A judge must apply laws as written. We are not policy makers " . A sentence that should be engraved in every court, especially in those of our country.
But what, according to the reactions of liberals and their media, including Italians, appears to be her biggest flaw is another: Amy Coney Barrett is Catholic and believes, to the core, in the principles of her religion. In the face of a top-level curriculum, a course of study and work that places her as one of the best possible choices, her faith, not lived in rose water, is enough to raise the shields from the left and to bring the Democratic Biden-Harris ticket to appeal for confirmation to be blocked. The accusations leveled at her range from being a "fundamentalist" to wanting to subvert the Roe vs. Wade , who legalized abortion in the States. But the GOP has the numbers to win the Senate game and complete one of the fastest confirmation paths in history. Mitch McConnell knows the importance of this victory.
Barrett's appointment and confirmation are a key challenge in the November elections. Trump knows that his move can earn him a booty of votes to help him win the final sprint against Biden, regrouping his base, made up of conservatives and evangelicals, and recovering the vote of Catholics and that silent majority to which The Donald continues to appeal. So the game, aimed at moving the SCOTUS more and more to the right, the conservative judges would become 6 against 3 liberals, is obviously much broader and more delicate.
In this context it is good to hope that the qualities and the work done during her career by Barrett do not take second place and that, together with her "judicial philosophy" and her love for the country and the Constitution, are the subject principal at the center of the debate preceding the confirmation vote, not her being Catholic. Because ACB deserves to replace RBG, with all due respect to the shameful discrimination on a religious basis carried out by the Dems …
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