Thursday, October 15, 2020

QOTD -- Her Job

"... [B]y refusing to answer these questions, Barrett has already told us everything we need to know. She won’t recuse herself, because she doesn’t think voter intimidation is illegal, and she won’t commit to asking the president to peaceably transfer power. She’s already decided to crush the ACA and Roe v. Wade should she get a chance.

"Barrett is here to do a job. That job is not to be an impartial arbiter of cases and controversies. That job is to help Trump and the Republican Party push their antidemocratic agenda through the courts. And she admitted to all of it, right out in the open, to those who were listening closely." -- Elie Mystal, on Amy Coney Barrett's revealing confirmation hearing.  This is a great read that gets to the core of Coney Barrett's radicalism and her barely disguised evasions that still showed how out- of- the- mainstream her jurisprudence has and will be.