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The brilliance lives loudly within her

If confirmed, Barrett would move the Supreme Court in a principled direction, as there would not be a need to account for Chief Justice John Roberts s strategery to achieve a majority. No longer would a five-justice (or more) bloc need to be cobbled together like a piece of compromise legislation. I look forward to the court finally starting to flesh out the scope of the right to keep and bear arms, for example, and putting an end to treating people differently based on the color of their skin in college admissions. While Barrett isn t known for administrative law, I hope also that she would join fellow Trump nominees Gorsuch and Kavanaugh in reining in the bureaucracy and forcing Congress to make tough decisions about conflicting policy views. That s ultimately the only way we ll start dissipating the toxic cloud surrounding judicial nominations.

Once you get past the social (and mainstream) media smears about Barrett s religion apparently, she belongs to a cult of handmaids whose husbands force them to be judges and had to settle for serving on the Supreme Court because of a lack of abortion access you find a genuine and warm person who also happens to be one of the finest lawyers in the land, a servant-leader. If confirmed, I would not assume that role for the sake of those in my own circle and certainly not for my own sake, she concluded her introductory remarks. I would assume this role to serve you.

via www.washingtonexaminer.com