{"id":10475,"date":"2025-06-04T03:22:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T03:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=10475"},"modified":"2025-06-04T03:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T03:22:15","slug":"maga-rage-against-justice-barrett-has-been-brewing-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=10475","title":{"rendered":"MAGA rage against Justice Barrett has been brewing: ANALYSIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Justice Amy Comey Barrett has not commented on brewing right-wing criticism of her votes from the bench nor would she be expected to: members of the court almost never engage directly, much less in the moment, with political critiques.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">But the blowback against Barrett is remarkable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Not only over her vote with liberal justices to reject President Donald Trump&#8217;s effort to rescind a lower court order to pay out some $2 billion in foreign aid back in March, but also:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"sfxjZ dAmzA UoVV WtEci dSKvB seFhp wtgAa XoCUF \" data-testid=\"prism-list\">\n<li class=\"mmrhV WeAzC lZur foTEL SpgmX cnYss qArv hxIMs isuUo hCkek nYZyJ xXFZR luHJ DuCgd Veett \" data-testid=\"prism-list-item\">Barrett joining Chief Justice John Roberts to reject then-candidate Trump\u2019s request to delay sentencing in his New York hush money case right before his inauguration.<\/li>\n<li class=\"mmrhV WeAzC lZur foTEL SpgmX cnYss qArv hxIMs isuUo hCkek nYZyJ xXFZR luHJ DuCgd Veett \" data-testid=\"prism-list-item\"\/>\n<li class=\"mmrhV WeAzC lZur foTEL SpgmX cnYss qArv hxIMs isuUo hCkek nYZyJ xXFZR luHJ DuCgd Veett \" data-testid=\"prism-list-item\">Barrett joining the liberals, in part, in dissenting over an order that tossed out the appeal of Venezuelan detainees sent to El Salvador in defiance of U.S. District Judge James Boasberg.<\/li>\n<li class=\"mmrhV WeAzC lZur foTEL SpgmX cnYss qArv hxIMs isuUo hCkek nYZyJ xXFZR luHJ DuCgd Veett \" data-testid=\"prism-list-item\"\/>\n<li class=\"mmrhV WeAzC lZur foTEL SpgmX cnYss qArv hxIMs isuUo hCkek nYZyJ xXFZR luHJ DuCgd Veett \" data-testid=\"prism-list-item\">And then, there was the look she appeared to give Trump after his joint address to Congress. <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/ifJGN7GTcV0\">It went viral<\/a> and the president\u2019s allies claim it speaks volumes about her true views. &#8220;That\u2019s about as close to stink eye as you can get. I\u2019ve had a couple of my ex-wives look at me like that,&#8221; Steve Bannon said on his podcast.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">While conservative lawyer Mike Davis has been the closest ally of Trump to openly criticize Barrett, she&#8217;s been attacked by other influential MAGA voices, including Laura Loomer, who accuses Trump of elevating Barrett as a &#8220;DEI Hire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cJustice Barrett is probably the greatest concern right now for the Trump administration,\u201d legal scholar Jonathan Turley told Fox News last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I&#8217;m worried about her. She&#8217;s a little squishy,&#8221; complained conservative commentator Megyn Kelly on her program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;Please Donald Trump make sure you find a Scalia as our next Supreme Court justice if you get to appoint one,&#8221; podcaster Glenn Beck said recently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Trump has not publicly turned against Barrett, likely in part because he still needs her support on a wave of emergency appeals before the court and because he went all-in for the judge from Notre Dame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;She is one of our nation\u2019s most brilliant legal scholars, and she will make an outstanding justice on the highest court in our land,&#8221; Trump declared in late 2020 as Barrett was sworn in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;Justice Barrett has made clear she will issue rulings based solely upon a faithful reading of the law and the Constitution as written, not legislate from the bench,&#8221; Trump attested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I know you will make us all very, very proud,&#8221; he said then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Trump defended her after the foreign aid ruling, telling reporters, &#8220;She&#8217;s a very good woman. She&#8217;s very smart, and I don&#8217;t know about people attacking her, I really don&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">But sources confirmed to ABC News that Trump has discussed his frustrations with his Supreme Court picks, saying he thinks they could do more to back his agenda. And he recently attacked Federalist Society leader Leonard Leo, who advised him on judicial nominations during his first term, calling him a &#8220;sleazebag.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cI am so disappointed in The Federalist Society because of the bad advice they gave me on numerous judicial nominations,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It&#8217;s worth noting that Barrett is unquestionably a conservative vote on the bench and has voted in Trump&#8217;s interests numerous times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">She votes with Justice Brett Kavanaugh 90% of the time, according to Adam Feldman, author of Empirical SCOTUS, a blog which tracks the data. She has voted with Justice Alito more than she has with any of the liberals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Legal historians say, despite the rumblings, it is not a fair comparison to liken Barrett to the late Justice David Souter, who famously became a reliable liberal vote after Republican President George H.W. Bush put him on the court in hopes of a reliable conservative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Barrett has delivered votes overturning Roe v Wade; expanding gun rights; and rolling back the power of federal agencies as part of the administrative state \u2014 all key priorities of Trump and his supporters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Amy Comey Barrett has not commented on brewing right-wing criticism of her votes from the bench nor would she be expected to: members of the court almost never engage directly, much less in the moment, with political critiques. But the blowback against Barrett is remarkable. 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