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Monday, September 21, 2020

The woman likely to be named by Trump as his Court cramdown Catholic. New Orleans child of an oil-patch lawyer. Will serve corporations over people?

 Barrett is the subject of an AP item. Read it to see who to expect from Orange Man.

She probably loves Citizens United, giving corporations powers meant, originally for humans, who cannot exist "in perpetuity." As an "originalist." She should be asked about corporate huministic rights and powers, and where in original texts she'd point for such a plain dumb decision. AP says:

Barrett was raised in New Orleans, the eldest child of a lawyer for Shell Oil Co. She earned her undergraduate degree in English literature in 1994 at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn. She and her husband, Jesse Barrett, a former federal prosecutor, both graduated from Notre Dame Law School. They have seven children, including two adopted from Haiti and one with special needs.

Trump personally does not care a rip about abortion, but feeds red meat to the crazies.

Barrett looks to be one of the crazies. The fan is going to load up, Trump likely loving every minute of discord he can sow and shall be that way up to his being replaced in the White House, and then, after that until he croaks. 

Besides being Notre Dame output having dad lawyering for the oil barons suggests that she has no conscience toward people, vs corporations  or people vs. government - Trump keeps Roberts and McConnell happy with that checkbox on the application. Publicity over embryo politics, dead set to see that government and business interests prevail over individuals, workers in particular need to worry. After all, minimum wages are not specified in original documents - so is a minimum wage constitutional?

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She's written a slew of stuff nobody reads, and seems averse to brevity being wit. But all Law Review stuff is tediously long, so she goes along to get along.

This is the item the AP authors noted as Barrett leaving Roe v. Wade out of her aura of binding precedent. Her being dismissive of it because controversy burns on, she says. (In whose heart and mind it burns brightest can be inferred.) Only 28 pages, one of her shorter things.

The threat this mind poses to Roe v. Wade is seen in footnotes 78 and 141. She does not knife the decision until her f.n. 141, which stands 3 pages from the end. The item is turgid enough that few would get that far before stopping. Web word search to the rescue. I didn't have to plow through all that stuff to find Roe knifed, per the pdf you can download from the SSRN link.