Amy Coney Barrett’s week in Wonderland Liberal

The justice of the Supreme Court Amy Coney Barrett, Once a roe-What conservative dear, recently triggered Trump’s believers, appearing to give a post-special side eyes and the decision against the president who named it. In this episode, host and Vanity Fair editor -in -chief Radhika Jones, next to the executive editor Claire Howorth and hive editor Michael Calderone, Explores the Barrett’s path to the High Court, the philosophy and its judicial faith and the right re -adummation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a “Dei rental. “

In addition, the taxpayer of legal affairs Farias Cristian joins the show to break down how Donald Trump and Elon Musk I am causing constitutional chaos– And in what role Barrett and her colleagues could play in holding. “I feel we all live in a huge civic lesson at this time,” says Jones. “I woke up to look at the poster of my son, which he has about the United States government and the three branches, and I only find that in real time how these checks and hips are played.”

Even from Salt, Barrett’s confirmation in 2020 was controversial. Has contracted directly Mctch McConnellit is own DEMAnD not to be called justice in court during an election year. But Barrett, the former distinguished member of the federalist society, also raised concerns because of his conservative judicial bending, especially when it came to abortion. Finally, these concerns proved more than justified when, in 2022, justice joined a conservative majority in Dobbs v. Jackson, eliminating the precedent of almost 50 years that protected national law to an abortion. However, Howorth notes, Barrett was “a little more inscribed in other places, and her voting record was on both sides of the aisle.”

I actually saw that right last week, when Barrett and Judge -Chief John Roberts Surprisingly joined the court’s liberal justice lock Trump’s movement to freeze nearly $ 2 billion in external aid. She recently and she recently out of tune Against a conservative decision on a case of water pollution related to EPA, causing some of the Maga to believe that it is a “liberal theft”, as Farias says. Farias, however, throws cold water on such a notion: “It is a conservative from time to time. The question is: how far is it willing to push that conservatism, especially … in a moment when the president and the Congress do not respect the clear limits that the Constitution sets between the Executive, the Legislative Branch and the courts? “Howorth, from her, believes that Barrett” can have her own agenda. ” But at the end of the day, “this does not mean that it is not conservative. And for me everything sounds a lot like around 2016, thinking of me Melania Trump I will suddenly be like: “Ah, I hate him. I left here. And so it doesn’t work. “

Otherwise, Jones brings us to another file of the Supreme Court whose precedent could soon be on the chopping block: New York Times v. Sullivan, which raised the legal threshold for defamation costumes by establishing a standard of “real evil”. “Both Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch have spoke about review Times v. Sullivan, Which I think triggers alarms among journalists and especially news rooms from all over the country, ”notes Calderone, who interviewed or– David Enrich on this topic. Peak also extract Enrich’s most recent book, which covers the legal efforts of the right to overthrow the 61 -year -old, a result that could be disastrous for media companies that want to hold power.