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Amy Coney Barrett (view source)
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'''Amy Coney Barrett''' (born 1972) is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the [[Seventh Circuit]], having been appointed by President [[Donald Trump]] to the position. She is considered the leading candidate to be nominated by President [[Trump]] to replaced the seat vacated by the death of [[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]], on the [[U.S. Supreme Court]].
'''Amy Coney Barrett''' (born January 28, 1972) is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the [[Seventh Circuit]], having been appointed by President [[Donald Trump]] to the position. She is considered the leading candidate to be nominated by President [[Trump]] to replaced the seat vacated by the death of [[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]], on the [[U.S. Supreme Court]].
After intense, irrational [[liberal]] opposition to her confirmation, which included [[Dem]] [[Senator]] [[Dianne Feinstein]] questioning her religious beliefs,<ref name="Amy Barrett info"/> the [[U.S. Senate]] voted 55–43 to confirm Barrett on October 31, 2017,<ref>[https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=115&session=1&vote=00255 U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 115th Congress - 1st Session]</ref> with [[Joe Donnelly]], [[Tim Kaine]], and [[Joe Manchin]] being the only [[Democrats]] who voted for her.
After intense, irrational [[liberal]] opposition to her confirmation, which included [[Dem]] [[Senator]] [[Dianne Feinstein]] questioning her religious beliefs,<ref name="Amy Barrett info"/> the [[U.S. Senate]] voted 55–43 to confirm Barrett on October 31, 2017,<ref>[https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=115&session=1&vote=00255 U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 115th Congress - 1st Session]</ref> with [[Joe Donnelly]], [[Tim Kaine]], and [[Joe Manchin]] being the only [[Democrats]] who voted for her.
Judge Barrett has written that [[stare decisis]] or judicial precedent is not absolutely binding and can be overturned for solid reasons: “I tend to agree with those who say that a justice’s duty is to the Constitution and that it is thus more legitimate for her to enforce her best understanding of the Constitution rather than a precedent she thinks is clearly in conflict with it,” <ref>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2291141</ref>
Judge Barrett has written that [[stare decisis]] or judicial precedent is not absolutely binding and can be overturned for solid reasons: “I tend to agree with those who say that a justice’s duty is to the Constitution and that it is thus more legitimate for her to enforce her best understanding of the Constitution rather than a precedent she thinks is clearly in conflict with it,” <ref>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2291141</ref>
==Early Life==
Amy Vivian Coney, the oldest of seven children, was born and raised in [[New Orleans|New Orleans, Louisiana]]. A lifelong [[Roman Catholic]], she attended St. Mary's Dominican High School, where she was vice-president of the student body. After graduating in 1990, she attended Rhodes College in [[Memphis|Memphis, Tennessee]], majoring in English literature. While there, she joined the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society, and graduated ''magna cum laude'' in 1994, having been chosen by the English department's faculty as their most outstanding student. Coney went on to study law at the University of Notre Dame, obtaining a prestigious Kiley Fellowship; she served for a time as executive editor of the Notre Dame Law Review, and graduated ''summa cum laude'' first in her class in 1997, winning the Law School's highest honor, the Hoynes Prize.
She married Jesse M. Barrett, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of [[Indiana]] and current partner at SouthBank Legal in South Bend, Indiana. They have seven children, two of whom are adopted from [[Haiti]].
==Legal Career==
After graduating from Notre Dame, Barrett spent a year as a law clerk for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, then did the same the following year for [[Supreme Court]] Associate Justice [[Antonin Scalia]]. In 1999, she joined the [[Washington, D.C.]] law firm Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin, where she litigated cases in constitutional, criminal, and commercial law. In 2002, Barrett returned to Notre Dame to join the Law School's faculty, teaching and researching in the fields of federal courts, constitutional law, and statutory interpretation. Several of the nation's leading law journals, including the Columbia, Texas, and Virginia Law Reviews, have published scholarly articles written by her on these subjects. During her time on the Notre Dame faculty, three of the Law School's graduating classes voted her "Distinguished Professor of the Year," and former students of hers later described her as "inspirational," "always approachable," and "remarkably fair-minded and smart."<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/female-scotus-candidate-amy-coney-barrett-praised-by-her-law-school-students</ref>
Apart from her work at Notre Dame, Barrett has also served as a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and the George Washington University Law School, and is a member of the American Law Institute. From 2010 to 2016, she was a member of the Advisory Committee for the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure.<ref>https://law.nd.edu/directory/amy-barrett/</ref>
== Coronavirus jurisprudence ==
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