A Scholar-Justice John O. McGinnis

Liberal hopes and conservative fears about Barrett, however, are misplaced. It is true that she is becoming increasingly confident as she enters her fourth year on the Court. But her decisions are not dictated by ideology but rather by intellect. She is the only former law professor among the originalist-oriented judges and spent much of her time as an academic working on interpretive theory originalism in constitutional law and textualism in constitutional law. She sees it as part of her judicial duty to make the decisions following these theories as principled and rigorous as possible. In trying to work the law pure, she will naturally depart from some of the rationales and results of her colleagues. Justice Barrett deserves praise for charting her own course.

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