The Battle for the Supreme Court

In a guest column by the Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus, described as the paper’s first and “first-ever invocation of victims and survivors of abortion”, Barrett, an attorney for Justice Brett Kavanaugh, which took heat…

The Battle for the Supreme Court

In a guest column by the Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus, described as the paper’s first and “first-ever invocation of victims and survivors of abortion”, Barrett, an attorney for Justice Brett Kavanaugh, which took heat in the US from Republicans for comments she made as a law professor on the Supreme Court could help overturn Roe v Wade.

“I’m not aware of anybody that has been thrown off the bench,” Barrett said, reflecting on cases of death penalties.

“They were duly discticted, notwithstanding that the consensus case on constitutional precedent here, we call it case law, the judgment of the Supreme Court of the United States, it states that ‘the method of abortion itself is not the focus of our constitutional concern’,” Barrett said.

Carrying out the full order as the lower court was considering its decision against her, Barrett wrote in an amicus brief — on behalf of the university of Notre Dame — that Roe v Wade and all it’s progeny had “far-reaching legal, constitutional, and regulatory implications”.

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