Amy Coney Barrett’s decision to hold up a blank notebook to prove she wasn’t using notes during Tuesday’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing turned into quite the viral sensation on social media, inspiring a host of amusing memes from both sides of the political aisle. President Trump’s nominee displayed the pad at the behest of Senator … Read more
Senate Democrats used the first hours Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings to torch the GOP’s decision to ‘rush’ through the process amid a pandemic just week’s before the election – and described driven by an effort to take down Obamacare. With President Trump’s nominee seated at a live Judiciary Committee hearing wearing a … Read more
Four years ago, Amy Coney Barrett was a little-known law professor in Indiana. Within weeks, she is likely to be the newest associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Barrett’s fast-track rise, set to drive the nation’s highest court to the right for a generation or longer, is the fulfillment of a decadeslong effort by … Read more