Live To Shoot: Who is Amy Coney Barrett?

Who is Amy Coney Barrett?

She is 48 years old and grew up outside of New Orleans in Metairie, Louisiana. She received her undergraduate degree from Rhodes College and earned her law degree from Notre Dame, where she graduated first in her class.

She has been married to her husband, Jesse, since 1999. They have seven children together, two of which were adopted from Haiti. She is a practicing Catholic and currently lives in South Bend, Indiana.

She clerked for the late Justice Antonin Scalia from 1998 to 1999 and spent a few years practicing law before moving into academia. Federal courts, constitutional law and statutory interpretation are the subjects she taught at Notre Dame, where she was named Professor of the Year three times. In 2010, she became a full professor of law.

President Trump nominated her to the 7th circuit in May 8, 2017, and she received bipartisan support at her confirmation hearing. 450 former students signed a letter to the Judiciary Committing telling senators that Professor Barrett was supremely qualified. Also, she received unanimous support from her Notre Dame colleagues who stated that despite their wide range of political views, they were united in their judgment of Amy.

As a judge she has been described as a “champion of originalism."

On the appeals court, she wrote a dissenting opinion in Kanter v Barr that gives us a glimpse of how she will rule on 2nd Amendment cases in the future. The plaintiff, who had been accused of a white-collar crime, argued that the federal and state laws that prohibit people convicted of felonies from having guns violate his second amendment right to bear arms. Barrett said at the country's founding, legislatures took away the gun rights of people who were believed to be dangerous. She argued that the laws are too broad because they ban people from having a gun without any evidence that they pose a risk. Barrett stressed that the 2nd amendment “confers an individual right, intimately connected with the natural right of self defense and not limited to civic participation."

This approach is positive for those of us who support the 2nd Amendment.

While she doesn’t have a long judicial career with many opinions, it is believed she is a strong originalist because she has said she shares the same philosophy as Justice Scalia.

The left is going to go after her because she is conservative and an originalist. Oh, and she is Catholic.

They have already demonstrated in her confirmation to the Appellate Court that her faith is going to be a point to attack. They have already started to sink to a lower level. I have seen attacks and calls for investigations into the adoption of her two children.

The Left is a horrible bunch and shows why we have to re-elect President Trump.