Who is Amy Coney Barrett? news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/in…
Barrett, 48, grew up in a suburb of New Orleans and attended a Catholic girls’ high school.
She earned her undergraduate degree from Rhodes College and went on to Notre Dame Law School. She then clerked with Laurence Silberman, who is active in the Federalist Society.
Like Justices Scalia and Gorsuch, Barrett identifies as a textualist—a legal scholar who seeks to determine the plain meaning of legislation rather than interpreting the intentions of its authors.
“To figure out what the law is, we go to the source,” she said on a panel in 2019.
Barrett often speaks publicly about her Catholicism, and her family life has strengthened her appeal to religious conservatives who see her as a true adherent to the pro-life cause.
Abortion is “always immoral,” declared a 1998 law review article Barrett co-authored.
Putting Barrett on the court would create a 6-3 conservative majority. Democrats fear the vocal abortion critic would almost certainly vote to overturn Roe v. Wade and potentially gut Obamacare.
To blunt that, some Democrats are raising the possibility of expanding the court.
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