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Amy Coney Barrett

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in New Orleans, Louisana, The United States

January 28, 1972

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Amy Vivian Coney Barrett J.D. (University of Notre Dame Law School, 1997; B.A., Rhodes College (Memphis, Tennessee), 1994) is the 103rd Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was nominated by President Donald Trump to succeed Ruth Bader Ginsburg upon her death and took the oath of office on October 27, 2020. She is the fifth woman to serve on the court, and one of three such currently sitting.

Previously, Barrett clerked for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, 1998–1999; held the Diane and M.O. Miller II Research Chair of Law at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, 2014–2017; and was a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 2017–2020, also appointed by President Trump. ...more

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Average rating: 3.66 · 1,860 ratings · 375 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution 3.66 avg rating — 1,860 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	United States Reports, Volume 592, Cases Adjudged in the United States Supreme Court at October Term 2020, November 2 Through April 1, 2021 by U.S. Supreme Court, Rebecca Anne Womeldorf (Reporter), John G. Roberts Jr. (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen (2022) by Josh Blackman (Editor), Clarence Thomas (Contributor), Samuel Alito (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The success of a multi-member court rides on the ability to disagree respectfully. The success of a democratic society does too.”
― Amy Coney Barrett, Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution

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“It may sound counterintuitive, as it did to my aunt, but making judgments about what the law requires isn’t always the same thing as deciding what is just. In the Boston Marathon bombing case, the Court held that there was no legal impediment to executing Tsarnaev, not that executing him was moral. In Terry v. United States, the Court held that the law did not permit resentencing, not that Terry’s original sentence was fair. And in the flag-burning case, the Court held that the First Amendment protected that act of protest, not that flag burning is virtuous. In a system where judges are not Solomons, their role is limited. They are referees, not kings, because they decide whether people have played by the rules rather than what the rules should be. As much as some people might admire Solomon, he wouldn’t make it through a confirmation hearing if he proposed to decide cases in accordance with his own conscience. That’s as it should be under our Constitution.”
― Amy Coney Barrett, Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution

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“My writing tends to be spare, perhaps to a fault. When I was a law clerk for Judge Laurence Silberman, he once called me into his office and barked, “Amy, don’t be afraid of the adverb!” I’ve tried to take his advice. Still, I favor brief, clean sentences without extra words. My (obviously unattainable) target is more Hemingway than Dostoyevsky.”
― Amy Coney Barrett, Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution

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