Washington (AP) – Amy Coney Barrett, the judge at the Supreme Court, says that “violence or threats to violence” against judges should not be the costs of the public service.
But in an interview in court with the Associated Press about her new book “on the law: Considerations on the court and constitution” Barrett was not willing to join other judges that President Donald Trump asked to ward off the rhetorical demonization judges.
She said there was a lot of clear polarization that was “handed over to a bad place and was buried to a bad place in relation to these actions of political violence”.
Together with other judges, she said that after the court’s decision, she received death threats in 2022. Wades had lifted right to abortion.
At 53 Barrett is the youngest member of the court. She said she wrote the book for which she received a registered progress of $ 2 million in order to make the nation’s highest court accessible to non-lawyers.
Few mentions by Trump
Barrett joined the court in 2020, a little more than a month after judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg died and had replaced Trump Barrett for her. In her book, the Republican President receives only a few mentions, mainly in connection with her nomination and confirmation.
With the decision of the court in 2024, she was spared the decision of the court of the lawsuit for his efforts to overthrow his loss of election in 2020 without using his name or declaring the decision.
“When, for example, a former president was charged – a historical first – the court took the case to decide whether he could be prosecuted because of his official acts,” wrote Barrett. It joined most of the majority opinion of Chief Justice John Roberts.
Even if Barrett writes about political polarization across the country, she does not appeal to the role of Trump. The book does not deal with events of his second term that began in January when Barrett said that she completed the letter.
The consideration of the president and the executive power by the court must necessarily be separated from the current resident of the office because … The Court of Justice in the context of the broad history of the history, the president who have come before, and who have come on site, and who later come and the presidents who have decided on the president, and Barrett, Barrett, Barrett, more When the president as the president, Barrett said.
In the interview and later public appearances, Barrett played the idea that the nation is suspended or dealt with unprecedented events.
“It is difficult to say when you are looking for the whole history that there have been no times when this disagreement was even more acute,” she said, listing the civil war, the Vietnam War Protest and great depression.
The book will be published on Tuesday by Sentinel, a conservative impression of Penguin Random House.
Some disagreements with the president
Barrett wrote clearly on two topics that interpret a certain disagreement with the president. Last month, Trump signed an executive order in which the Ministry of Justice was asked to examine and follow people for the burning of the American flag, despite a decision by the 1989 Supreme Court, which protected the action as a political speech.
Barrett wrote admirable about the freedom of speech by judges Anthony Kennedy and Antonin Scalia, for whom she once worked, despite her personal aversion to the burning of the flag.
Without a reference to Trump and his considerations about the search for a third term of office of the President, Barrett also determined the clarity of the two-term limit added to the 1951 constitution.
“This clear imperative in our binding law is reminiscent of no space for the second attention,” she wrote.
The Court Court’s conservative super majority
Barrett was the last of the three representatives of Trump, who joined the court and conserved a conservative super majority, which quickly reversed the constitutional right to abortion, exhausting the affirmative measures in education, expanding weapons rights and making it more tough to maintain government regulations. In a number of emergencies this year, Barrett was mainly in the majority to allow Trump, with the plans to redesign the federal government, even after the judge in the lower square that some of his actions are illegal.
The decision to overthrow Roe on Barrett’s voice. At that time she was the junior justice and the last one who voted when the court met at an argument at a private conference.
When it was his turn to speak, the Court would most likely be divided into the central question that it overturned for almost 50 years of the Supreme Court.
When asked about the moment in the interview, Barrett said: “What would happen in the conference in the conference.”
Barrett, a mother of seven years and the only woman in the majority, took the opinion of Justice Samuel Alito, but she did not contribute to her own opinion, as some of her colleagues did.
“I write when I have the feeling that I can contribute something because there is something that remains unsaid that I think is important to say methodically,” she said.
Roe v. Calculate calf
The Court does not often speak its previous decisions, and Barrett said that the current court does this less frequently than its predecessors.
“It is not surprising that the court has always lifted cases,” she said. “So it is not surprising that the dish, you know, is a human institution and make people mistake.”
So Roe was a mistake, she was asked.
Alito’s opinion “describes” where … Roe went wrong when interpreting the proper procedural clause. So you do not overwrite a precedent without the conclusion that this precedent was wrong in some ways in relation to the law, “said Barrett.
Barrett offered a defense of the decision in the book.
“If the constitution goes beyond the scope of the democratic majorities, the court must enforce this election vigilant and fearlessly. Otherwise, the court must leave the matter to the democratic procedure, according to which the citizens have to convince each other and not a handful of judges from the Supreme Court,” she wrote. “These points encourage the court’s argumentation in Dobb against Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which means that the constitution delivers the regulation of abortion for the democratic process.”
Barrett’s personal life
When she approaches the five -year anniversary of her confirmation, Barrett said that the greatest changes in her life to do with omnipresent security and “you can never feel completely free”.
Last week Barrett said she danced at a wedding until the end when Aretha Franklin’s “respect” began to play. “I just started turning my niece around, and suddenly I see my sister lifts over the floor, and someone had a phone out and they took me out,” said Barrett. “She opened and said: ‘I want you to delete that.'”
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