If Supreme Court Betrays Pro-Lifers, Blow Up The Right’s Legal Movement
Less than a handful of years after their hard-won elevation to the Supreme Court, Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett are sending a chill down the spines of conservatives with a string of bad signals from their seats on the court.
In July, Kavanaugh and Barrett joined the court s leftist majority in declining to hear Arlene s Flowers v. Washington, a critical religious liberty case. They again sided with the court s left in a similar decision to turn away a religious exemption challenge to Maine s vaccine mandate which Justices Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas took pains to note was staggering in its hypocrisy.
A State may not assume the best of individuals engaged in their secular lives while assuming the worst about the habits of religious persons, the trio wrote.
Just this week, Barrett and Kavanaugh embraced a theory of judicial supremacy out of step with a more conservative tradition when they both appeared openly skeptical of the construction of the Texas abortion law, which bans the practice after six weeks of pregnancy.
All of this should make the guts of conservatives churn in the leadup to next month s oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women s Health, the biggest abortion case the court has heard in decades.
I like Rachel. She’s quite smart and only somewhat too conservative. If ACB isn’t pro-life enough for Rachel, I’d say Rachel is out of luck. But we’ll see. I think ACB is just being really careful, and I’m sure she has good reason to be so.