Democrats Have No Case Against Judge Amy Coney Barrett

Confirmation Hearings For Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s Latest Supreme Court Nominee, Begin This Morning. Since They Can’t Find Issue With Judge Barrett’s Qualifications For The Role, Expect Democrats To Resort To Personal Attacks 

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THE TIME HAS COME FOR DEMOCRATS TO DO WHAT THEY DESCRIBED AS THEIR “DUTY” AND CONSIDER THE NOMINATION OF JUDGE AMY CONEY BARRETT

Confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States begin this morning and Democrats are already lining up their opposition.

President Trump: “We were put in this position of power and importance to make decisions for the people who so proudly elected us, the most important of which has long been considered to be the selection of United States Supreme Court Justices. We have this obligation, without delay!”

Joe Biden in 2016 on the obstruction of a Supreme Court nominee: “This is not healthy and the Constitution, clearly by implication and I believe as a matter of fact, requires the Senate to do its duty. Vote.”

Sen. Chuck Schumer: “To leave the Supreme Court vacant…in a divided time. This kind of obstructionism isn’t going to last.”

Vice Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris repeatedly emphasized on Twitter of the need to confirm Merrick Garland.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein: “Refusal” to consider a nominee “will only further diminish the Senate in the eyes of the American people.”

EXPERTS AND THE MEDIA HAVE ALL PRAISED JUDGE BARRETT AS EXCEPTIONALLY WELL QUALIFIED

ABC News on Judge Barrett: “She’s very well regarded, well liked, I don’t think anyone’s going to be able to raise issues about her qualifications.”

Former dean of the Boston College Law School and president of the Catholic University of America, John Garvey: “I would be astonished if anyone were to oppose her nomination on the basis of character or intellect.”

Jonathan Adler, a professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, called Judge Barrett “remarkable,” “in terms of intellectual caliber, she is as impressive as they come.”

CNN’s Abby Phillip: Judge Barrett “is widely viewed to be well qualified for this position.”

Ken Starr on Judge Barrett: “The President has chosen a superb nominee.”

George Stephanopoulos on Judge Barrett: “By all accounts she’s a brilliant lawyer.”

Even Democrat Senator Chris Coons, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was forced to admit that Barrett is qualified to serve as a Supreme Court Justice.

JUDGE BARRETT HAS WON THE ADMIRATION AND RESPECT OF PEERS ACROSS THE IDEOLOGICAL SPECTRUM

Judge Barrett has been winning praise from her colleagues, students and the legal community “for decades.”

During her time clerking for Justice Antonin Scalia, Judge Barrett “stood out” even among the impressive group of three dozen Supreme Court clerks, earning the respect of even her liberal peers.

Harvard law professor Noah Feldman, a prominent liberal who has testified against President Trump, said that measuring by pure legal acumen Judge Barrett was “one of the two strongest lawyers.”

Judge Barrett is just as well regarded by her colleagues at Norte Dame who “herald her as an almost perfect choice based on her judicial opinions, academic writings and personal life as the mother of seven children.”

Notre Dame Law Professor O. Carter Snead:  Judge Barrett “has an incandescent mind that has won the admiration of colleagues across the ideological spectrum.”

Notre Dame Law School Dean Marcus Cole called Judge Barrett “an absolutely brilliant legal scholar and jurist.”

Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins said that Judge Barrett “is a person of the utmost integrity who, as a jurist, acts first and foremost in accord with the law.”

Paolo Carozza, a Notre Dame law professor and director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, praised Judge Barrett as an “intelligent, thoughtful, open-minded person."

Notre Dame Law Professor Stephen Yelderman’s assessment of Judge Barrett was very clear, “She’s mind-blowingly intelligent, and she’s also one of the most humble people you’re going to meet. Judge Barrett is the complete package."

GIVEN HER IMPRESSIVE QUALIFICATIONS, IT’S NO SURPRISE THAT JUDGE BARRETT IS GAINING POPULARITY WITH AMERICANS AS THEY REVIEW HER IMPRESSIVE RECORD

Morning Consult: “Democrats are losing the Supreme Court messaging war, new polling indicates, with support for Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation trending in the GOP’s direction.”

46% of voters Morning Consult/Politico poll said the Senate should confirm Barrett, up 9 percentage points since President Donald Trump announced her nomination.

The new poll shows opposition to Barrett from Democrats is declining and support from Republicans and independents rising.

 

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