What to know about #AmyConeyBarrett rulings
Abortion
Judge Barrett has considered 3 laws restricting abortions from her home state, IN. In all 3 cases, she expressed misgivings about earlier rulings from appeals judges that had struck down the laws.
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In one case her court let stand a ruling that threw out a law tightening the requirements for notifying the parents of minors seeking abortions. Barrett was on the losing side joining an opinion that the ruling was premature and that the law should have been allowed to go into 2/
effect to assess its actual impact. (Not sure this is how it's supposed to work?)
“Preventing a state statute from taking effect is a judicial act of extraordinary gravity in our federal structure,” the opinion said.
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Judge Barrett also joined a 2018 dissent concerning two other Indiana laws, one banning abortions sought solely because of the sex or disability of a fetus and the other requiring abortion providers to bury or cremate fetal remains. Both had been blocked by a three-judge panel
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2017 she slammed Justice Roberts 2012 decision to uphold the ACA
scholarship.law.nd.edu/cgi/viewconten…
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Gun Rights
In a 2019 dissent, Judge Barrett said she would have limited the sweep of a federal law forbidding people with felony convictions from owning guns.
media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExe…
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Death Penalty
In 1998, writing with John H. Garvey, now the president of Catholic University of America, Judge Barrett suggested that Catholic judges should recuse themselves in some death penalty cases that might conflict with their religious beliefs.
scholarship.law.nd.edu/law_faculty_sc…
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(She's Catholic, so this is important)
“I would recuse myself and not actually enter the order of execution”
On the Seventh Circuit, she has voted to allow executions to proceed.
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Discrimination
In a dissent in June, she said she would have overturned a trial court ruling blocking the Trump administration’s efforts to tighten the “public charge” rule
casetext.com/case/cook-cnty…?
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