Amy Coney Barrett on faith, politics, precedent
Judge Amy Coney Barrett listens as President Donald Trump announced her as his nominee to the Supreme Court at th White House on September 26. (AP Photo / Alex Brandon)
Some notable quotes from Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, a former Notre Dame law professor and current judge on the Chicago-based Seventh US Circuit Court of Appeals. On September 26, President Donald Trump announced he was nominating Barrett to fill the seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
ON JUDICIAL NOMINEES
“However cagey a justice may be at the nomination stage, her approach to the Constitution becomes evident in the opinions she writes. . . . It would be difficult for a modern justice to avoid revealing her position on whether the original public meaning of the Constitution controls its interpretation.” —2013 article in the Texas Law Review
