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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLawyer Robert Barnes thread: Background on Amy Coney Barrett as a judge
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Tweet text: THREAD: #Barrett sided with the government on almost every civil rights case, every big employer case, every criminal case, while also siding with the government on the lockdowns, on uncompensated takings, on excusing First Amendment infringements & Fourth Amendment violations.
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THREAD: #Barrett sided with the government on almost every civil rights case, every big employer case, every criminal case, while also siding with the government on the lockdowns, on uncompensated takings, on excusing First Amendment infringements & Fourth Amendment violations.
#Barrett exclaimed the benefits of Jacobson, the decision that green-lit forced vaccines & carved out an emergency exception to Constitutional protection in "public health" or "emergency" cases used to justify forced sterilizations & detention camps. Read: politico.com/f/?id=00000174
#Barrett excused or immunized questionable police conduct in almost every seizure case or use of force case she came across, many with fact patterns that will make her easily demolished in the court of public opinion in the age of George Floyd. An example: x4f6bg12df75i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/upl
Another example: a highly dubious stop that the media can easily make into #Barrett justifying stopping drivers for "driving while black" that she prevented from reaching a jury trial despite the cops sudden memory loss in the case. casetext.com/case/torry-v-c
#Barrett hid behind precedent that fellow federal circuits said did not apply any longer to allow Chicago to prohibit pro-life activists from exercising their free speech, and did so w/o a concurring opinion as she did whenever she doubted precedent.
Price v. Chicago, No. 17-2196 (7th Cir. 2019)
Pro-life sidewalk counselors sued to enjoin Chicagos bubble zone ordinance, which bars them from approaching within eight feet of a person within 50 feet of an abortion clinic if their purpose is
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca7/17-2196/17-2196-2019-02-13.html
#Barrett justified discriminating against someone participating in protests over the killing of his brother, in a case that will make easy headlines for her critics to make her look the misconduct-excuser her actual record says she is.
Dameion Perkins v. Milwaukee County, No. 18-3710 (7th Cir. 2019)
Dameion Perkins v. Milwaukee County, No. 18-3710 (7th Cir. 2019) case opinion from the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca7/18-3710/18-3710-2019-08-27.html
#Barrett justified regulatory takings without compensation and government discrimination by siding with the government's version once again (like she has in a near record setting 95%+ of cases).
Christel Van Dyke v. Village of Alsip, No. 20-1041 (7th Cir. 2020)
Christel Van Dyke v. Village of Alsip, No. 20-1041 (7th Cir. 2020) case opinion from the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca7/20-1041/20-1041-2020-09-02.html
#Barrett found a dubious "standing" excuse to deny citizens the right to prevent the corrupt misappropriation of property for the building of the Obama library. This is the kind of elite back-scratching Roberts-type jurists like #Barrett do. isba.org/cases/7thcircu
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Lawyer Robert Barnes thread: Background on Amy Coney Barrett as a judge (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Sep 2020
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MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)1. Read it and weep. n/t
dalton99a
(81,673 posts)2. A partisan robot, ready to serve
Baitball Blogger
(46,775 posts)3. You would think the anti-government types would be freaking out.
GeorgeGist
(25,326 posts)4. She's insane.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)5. So basically she is a female Clarence Thomas. nt