Trump's nomination of Amy Coney Barrett, in 3 minutes

Teleprompter Optics and Scripted Pomp-and-Circumstance ...watch-and-listen to her eery voice and then read the opinion piece inserted below by Ruth Marcus

The bombshell consequences of Amy Coney Barrett

No issue is more pivotal in considering a Supreme Court nomination than the candidate’s view of when to overturn a case she considers wrongly decided.

No nominee in history has written as extensively on this seemingly obscure topic as Judge Amy Coney Barrett, whom President Trump has named to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

And no nominee has openly endorsed views as extreme as Barrett’s on the doctrine of stare decisis, the principle that the court should not lightly overrule its precedents. In a series of law review articles, Barrett makes clear that in matters of constitutional interpretation, she would not hesitate to jettison decisions with which she disagrees.

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•Sep 26, 2020