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Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is defending her role as an occasional swing vote in the court’s formidable conservative bloc. In an interview with USA Today published on Monday, Barrett, 53, maintained that she is “nobody’s justice,” and that includes President Donald Trump. If Trump were to phone Barrett, she said she “might wonder if he had the wrong …

Amy Coney Barrett had been teaching full-time for nearly two decades, at Notre Dame’s campus in South Bend, Indiana, until she was selected by President Donald Trump, in 2020, to serve on the Supreme Court. Now, she’s traded the classroom for the courtroom, although she continues to teach a weeklong seminar on Constitutional Law.  In her first television interview since …

US supreme court rulings are “not just an opinion poll” of its nine judges’ beliefs, conservative Amy Coney Barrett says, as she and her colleagues weigh a request to overturn the legalization of same-sex marriage. “The court should not be imposing its own values on the American people,” Barrett remarked in a preview of an interview airing on the latest …

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s new book, Listening to the Law, excerpted in the Free Press on Wednesday, features a discussion of King Solomon. Barrett believes that the biblical king’s ruling about two mothers fighting for custody of …

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Washington — Justice Amy Coney Barrett said that the Supreme Court “should not be imposing its own values on the American people,” as the high court faces a longshot bid to revisit its decade-old landmark ruling legalizing same-sex marriage. In her first television interview since joining the Supreme Court in October 2020, Barrett told CBS News senior correspondent Norah O’Donnell …

Amy Coney Barrett, the conservative supreme court justice whose controversial fast-track confirmation at the end of Donald Trump’s first presidency led directly to the panel’s vote to strike down abortion rights nationally, has expressed in a new memoir her belief that the ruling “respected the choice” of the American people. Barrett was paid a $2m advance for her book Listening …

Supreme Court justices Supreme Court Abortion rights Donald Trump See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett in a new memoir defends her vote reversing a half century of national abortion rights, declaring that Roe v. Wade usurped the will of the American people and “came at a cost.” “(T)he Court’s role is to respect …

Lucasfilm has announced the cast for Star Wars: Starfighter and released a first-look image showing Ryan Gosling’s character. In June, it was reported that Gosling plays a character who “must protect his young nephew against evil pursuers.” Star Wars: Starfighter is directed by Shawn Levy, who directed Marvel mega hit Deadpool & Wolverine. Gosling is joined on the cast by …

The latest Star Wars movie, Star Wars: Starfighter, began rolling cameras in the United Kingdom Thursday, with Lucasfilm marking the occassion by unveiling the full cast. Flynn Gray, Aaron Pierre, Simon Bird, Jamael Westman, Daniel Ings, and Amy Adams are the new additions on the call sheet for the Lucasfilm feature, which is being directed by Shawn Levy and stars …