How Much Will Amy Coney Barrett Actually Stand Up to Trump?

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Few modern Supreme Court ascensions have felt as baldly predetermined, even scripted, as Amy Coney Barrett’s.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was still alive, and would be for two more years, when Donald Trump started telling people he was “saving” Barrett, then just confirmed to her first judgeship, for Ginsburg’s seat. He waited a whole week after Ginsburg’s death in September 2020 to push through Barrett’s nomination before the presidential election.