Amy Coney Barrett
SOURCE: Wikipedia, 2020-10-13
This page last modified: 2020-10-22 15:29:42 -0700 (PST)
- Incumbent: Assumed office 2017-11-02
- Nominated by: Donald Trump
- Preceded by: John Daniel Tinder
- Federalist Society (2005 to 2006; 2014 to 2017)
- American Law Institute
- People of Praise
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Amy Coney Barrett (born Amy Vivian Coney; January 28, 1972) is an American attorney, jurist, and academic who serves as a circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. President Donald Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the Seventh Circuit on May 8, 2017, and the Senate confirmed her on October 31, 2017. Before and while serving on the federal bench, Amy Coney Barrett has been a Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School, where she has taught civil procedure, constitutional law, and statutory interpretation. Eleven months after Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation to the Seventh Circuit, Barrett was added to Trump's list of potential Supreme Court nominees. On September 26, 2020, Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett to succeed Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS).
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Personal life
In 1999, Barrett married fellow Notre Dame Law School graduate Jesse M. Barrett [local copy (html, captured 2020-10-13)], a partner at SouthBank Legal -- LaDue Curran & Kuehn LLC in South Bend, Indiana, and a Law Professor [local copy (html, captured 2020-10-13)] at the Notre Dame Law School. Previously, Jesse Barrett worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana for 13 years. They live in South Bend and have seven children, two of whom were adopted from Haiti, one in 2005 and one after the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Their youngest biological child has Down syndrome. Jesse's aunt assisted with childcare in their home beginning when the eldest was about one year old. Barrett is a practicing Catholic. She has served as a laypastoral women's leader in the Christian parachurch community People of Praise, an ecumenical covenant community founded in South Bend. Associated with the Catholic charismatic renewal movement but not formally affiliated with the Catholic Church, about 90% of its approximately 1,700 members are Catholic. Barrett has voted in both Republican and Democratic primaries. She tested positive for COVID-19 in the summer of 2020 and has since recovered.[ ... snip ... ]
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PINNED: [MotherJones.com, 2020-10-13] Watch Senator Sheldon Whitehouse School Amy Coney Barrett on Dark Money. "$250 million is a lot of money to spend if you're not getting anything for it." -- Sheldon Whitehouse.
- [start] the impartiality of the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS);
- [~03:45] the GOP / dark money platform re: rescinding the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")
- [~06:31] the GOP / dark money anti-abortion agenda (rescinding Roe v. Wade);
- [~08:00] the GOP / dark money anti-gay marriage agenda (rescinding Obergefell v. Hodges);
- [~08:30] "The Scheme:" how dark money funds and drives those agendae.
- [~21:00] "Who wins, when you allow unlimited dark money in politics? A very small group. The ones who have unlimited money to spend, and a motive to spend it in politics. They win; everyone else loses."
Senator Whitehouse: "What's behind us is now 80 cases, Mr. Chairman, 80 cases under Chief Justice Roberts [John Roberts] that have these characteristics. One, they were decided 5-4 by a bare majority. Two, the 5-4 majority was partisan in the sense that not one Democratic appointee joined the five. I refer to that group as the "Roberts five." It changes a little bit as with Justice Scalia [Antonin Scalia]'s death, for instance, but there's been a steady Roberts five that has delivered now 80 of these decisions.
In all these areas where it's about political power for big special interests and people who want to fund campaigns and people who want to get their way through politics without actually showing up, doing it behind DonorsTrust and other groups, doing it through these schemes, over and over and over again, you see the same thing -- 80 decisions, Judge Barrett, 80 decisions, and 80-0 sweep.
I don't think you've tried cases but some cases, the issue is bias and discrimination, and if you are making a bias case, as a trial lawyer -- Lindsey Graham is a hell of a good trial lawyer, if he wanted to make a bias case, Dick Durbin is a hell of a good trial lawyer -- if they wanted to show an 80-0 pattern, (A), that's admissible and, (B), I'd love to make that argument to the jury. I'd be really hard-pressed to be the lawyer saying, 'No, 80-0 is just a bunch of flukes, all 5-4, all partisan, all this way.' So something is not right around the court, and dark money has a lot to do with it. Special interests have a lot to do with it. Donors Trust and whoever is hiding behind Donors Trust has a lot to do with it."
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Right-Wing Foundations Fund Anti-Consumer Protection Groups, 2014-present.
Sixteen right-wing foundations gave nearly $69 million to groups urging the Supreme Court to abolish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since 2014.Source. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is an agency of the United States government responsible for consumer protection in the financial sector. CFPB's jurisdiction includes banks, credit unions, securities firms, payday lenders, mortgage-servicing operations, foreclosure relief services, debt collectors and other financial companies operating in the United States.
The CFPB's creation was authorized by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, whose passage in 2010 was a legislative response to the financial crisis of 2007-2008 and the subsequent Great Recession. The CFPB's status as an independent agency has been subject to many challenges in court. In June 2020, the United States Supreme Court found the single-director structure removable only with-cause unconstitutional, but allowed the agency to remain in operation.DonorsTrust $23,460,705 Charles Koch Foundation $12,986,462 Sarah Scaife Foundation $7,550,000 Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation $5,579,500 Searle Freedom Trust $4,550,000 Dunn Foundation [DeSmogBlog profile] $4,450,000 Donors Capital Fund $2,522,680 John William Pope Foundation $1,895,175 Bradley Impact Fund $1,363,000 Mercer Family Foundation $1,200,000 Adolph Coors Foundation $1,155,000 F.M. Kirby Foundation $672,500 Charles Koch Institute $517,134 Ed Uihlein Family Foundation $408,000 Pierre F. and Enid Goodrich Foundation $395,000 William H. Donner Foundation $167,000 TOTAL $68,872,156 Senator Sheldon Whitehouse mentions the following dark money organizations and actors in his presentation.
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Carrie Severino and the Judicial Crisis Network. The Judicial Crisis Network and the Federalist Society are in the same building, on the same hallway. Also mentions Leonard A. Leo.
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The Judicial Education Project [aligned with the Judicial Crisis Network -- aka The Concord Fund | aka Honest Elections Project [overlaps Judicial Crisis Network] | aka The 85 Fund [aka Judicial Education Project] -- an elaborate obfuscating shell game. Carrie Severino, who helped select Amy Coney Barrett as a SCOTUS nominee, also works for the Judicial Education Project.
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In 2018, DonorsTrust funded more than 99% of the Judicial Education Project, a legal alias for the "Honest Elections Project" and The 85 Fund." [Source.]
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[2020-10-13] Senator Sheldon Whitehouse discusses the influence of dark money in the Supreme Court with CNN's Wolf Blitzer. Following the 2nd day of hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Sen. Whitehouse discusses the impact of dark money on the judicial confirmation process.
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[resource] Center for Reproductive Rights.
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[Statistica.com, 2020-10-12] The Legal Status of Abortion Worldwide.
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[reference] Geneva Consensus Declaration, a Trump administration / International community anti-abortion, anti-feminist initiative, masquerading as pro-women's health.
Center for Reproductive Rights: "The stakes couldn't be higher -- We oppose the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett..png)
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[DCReport.org, 2020-10-22] Amy Coney Barrett Failed to Disclose Leadership Role in Local Catholic Church. Supreme Court Candidate Chaired a Parish Board for Church Citing "Homosexual Behavior" as an Offense Against the 10 Commandments. ... On the very first page of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's Supreme Court nominee questionnaire, nominees are asked to include an employment record dating back to their college graduation. This would include any affiliation as an officer, director, partner or employee or non-profit organization, with or without pay. ...
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[Accountable.us, 2020-10-12] New Analysis Finds Barrett Sides Against Consumers, Immigrants, Workers, and More. Government Watchdog's Analysis Shows Trump's Nominee to the Supreme Court Sides with Corporations over Consumers, Workers, and Immigrants.
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[PRWatch.org, 2020-10-10] Snapshot of Secret Funding of Amicus Briefs Tied to Leonard Leo -- Federalist Society Leader, Promoter of Amy Barrett. A new review of grant documents, first published on the dark web, provides a snapshot of how groups tied to Leonard A. Leo -- the man who put Amy Barrett on President Trump's list for the Supreme Court-have been secretly funded to file briefs with the Supreme Court to overturn U.S. laws, including the Affordable Care Act.
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[ScheerPost.com, 2020-10-05] Trump's Barrett Nomination Another Step Toward Christian Fascism. All fascist and totalitarian movements paper over their squalid belief systems with the veneer of morality.
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[Salon.com, 2020-10-01] People of Praise: Religious group scrubs photos and mentions of SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barrett from website: report. jFormer members of People of Praise say wives were taught to always obey their husbands -- and provide sex on demand.
- [DemocracyNow.org, 2020-09-23] People of Praise: Who Is Amy Barrett? Front-Runner to Replace RBG Is Anti-Abortion Member of Patriarchal Catholic Group.
- [DemocracyNow.org, 2020-09-23] People of Praise: People of Praise: Former Member of Group Tied to SCOTUS Front-Runner Amy Barrett Calls It a "Cult".
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[HRC.org, 2020-09-22] Amy Coney Barrett is an Absolute Threat to LGBTQ Rights. Amy Coney Barrett's history tells a story of anti-LGBTQ ideology [including transphobia], opposing basic rights thought to be settled law, and an anti-choice ideology out of step with popular opinion.
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Twitter. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse: "This, more and more, looks like it's not three schemes -- but it's one scheme. With the same funders selecting judges, funding campaigns for the judges, & then showing up in court in these orchestrated amicus flotillas to tell the judges what to do."
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[2020-10-13] Senator Sheldon Whitehouse speaks during hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.
Discusses: Republican Party (GOP), Mitch McConnell, dark money influencer-funded agendae (facilitated by Citizens United v. FEC) and attacks against: