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It’s a mistake by ignorant conservatives and wishful liberals to consider she’s moderating. She’s precisely the individual I met 25 years in the past: principled, completely conservative, not inquisitive about shifting.
— Professor Noah Feldman of Harvard Regulation, in feedback given to the New York Times, on Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s conservative allegiances, regardless of her becoming a member of with liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan 82 p.c of the time within the Supreme Court docket’s present time period. In reality, in accordance with the Times’ reporting, Barrett initially voted in opposition to taking on Dobbs v. Jackson Ladies’s Well being Group, earlier than she finally joined the excessive court docket’s conservatives to upend reproductive freedom in America.
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