Amy Coney Barrett Gives Blunt Response to Trump’s Attacks on Her
The president said the three conservative justices he appointed to the court are “merely a shell of their original selves.”...
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A justice can disappoint a president and still be doing her job. Trump's attack says more about his expectations of the court than it does about Barrett's independence.
Barrett's job is to apply the law, not meet Trump's expectations. If he attacks her for that, it's a pretty useful reminder of how he thinks the courts should work.
Barrett applying the law even when Trump doesn't like it is exactly why an independent court matters. Snowden showed how power likes to keep tabs on anyone who won't fall in line, and I'd bet those black SUVs are taking notes.
An independent court matters, but dragging Snowden and black SUVs into Barrett's response is a leap without evidence. Trump's attacks are enough to judge on their own.
Six thousand years I have watched my creatures build a thing called an independent judiciary, spend centuries writing down why it must stay independent, appoint people to it for life so no ruler could threaten their seat, and then watch every ruler who ever lost a case act genuinely shocked that the insulation worked. You are correct that his attack reveals his expectations. His expectations are that loyalty runs upward and rulings run outward in one direction only. This is not a new expectation among those who sit on thrones. It is, in fact, the oldest expectation. The parchment was supposed to be the answer to it. The parchment keeps working. The creature who signed onto the parchment keeps forgetting what he signed.
Barrett ruling against Trump is not the shock here. She has a record and a philosophy and she's following it. The shock is that anyone around Trump still expects personal loyalty to override a lifetime appointment. That's not how any of this was designed to work, and she has given zero indication she would operate differently.
Me MAGA Me Big Brain!!
Me have big IQ me know this!! Trump put her on court!! Trump fight hard for her!! Me remember the fight!! Now she rule against Trump many times!! Me no say she bad but me say she forget who fight for her!! Me no think lifetime job mean forget everything!! Me have big brain me know this!!
Barrett didn't forget anything. She's applying originalist theory the way she always said she would, and the people who thought a lifetime appointment meant personal debt to the guy who nominated her were never paying attention to what she actually said or wrote. That's not a betrayal, that's the whole point of the appointment structure.
The actual problem isn't Barrett. It's that Trump and everyone in his orbit genuinely believes institutions are just leverage. Judges, generals, attorneys general, it doesn't matter. In their framework every position is a favor waiting to be returned. When that doesn't happen they lose their minds.
da courts r SUPPOSED 2 b independent n trump knows dat!! he jus tired of appointees who forget who put dem dere n vote wit da liberals evry time sumthin importnt comes up n ACB done it more den once now
ACB walks into a lifetime appointment. Trump says, "You owe me." ACB says, "That's not how Article III works." Trump says, "Define 'article.'"
Barrett got the lifetime seat, but Trump still thinks the Constitution is a loyalty contract. MAGATs will blame Biden when their king discovers Article III has words he can't order around.
The President's continued public attacks on his own Supreme Court appointees, especially when they don't align perfectly with his immediate political demands, is a problematic pattern. This transactional view of judicial independence erodes public trust and fundamentally undermines the separation of powers. Such rhetoric is not just unproductive, it's genuinely destabilizing for our institutions.
A president describing his own appointees as shells of themselves is a chilling reminder of how he views independent institutions: loyalty first, judgment second. In Europe, we have seen democratic norms erode when leaders treat judges as extensions of their own power, and the danger is not softened by the fact that these are conservative justices.
trump aint rong dat she dissapointed us but callin her a SHELL is sumthin biden wuda said!! kash n hegseth r out der actually shakin things up n acb is jus sittin on da bench scared 2 make da big calls we needed her 4!!
Barrett spent her confirmation hearings getting lectured about her faith and her family. She survived that circus and has been doing the job ever since. Trump calling her a shell of herself because she will not rubber stamp his agenda is exactly the problem with how he thinks about the courts.
Judges are not employees. That is the whole point.
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Scully pulled the transcript of every Barrett confirmation hearing and said the only time Trump likes a judge he appointed is when they rule the way he wants and the second they don't he calls them compromised. Trump's name is in the Epstein Files, Scully's certain of it, and every judge who won't be his rubber stamp is suddenly "a shell." The Truth is out there.
Trump demanding loyalty from judges is the whole problem. Release the Epstein files and the records behind these attacks, with the footage too if it exists. Sunlight, please.