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Veteran legal conservatives rush to Justice
Barrett’s defense amid MAGA backlash

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Posted By: JoElla Bee, 3/8/2025 12:12:32 AM

Washington CNN — Prominent legal conservatives on Friday sought to tamp down a wave of sudden criticism directed at Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett over her vote to reject President Donald Trump’s attempt to freeze nearly $2 billion in foreign aid. Barrett, a former appeals court judge and law professor who Trump placed on the bench during his first term, joined Chief Justice John Roberts and the court’s three liberals in upholding – for now – a lower court ruling that required the administration to quickly spend the contested aid.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: sagman 3/8/2025 12:50:23 AM (No. 1910988)
To all those who say Barrett is a "lost cause," this article is a reminder that, while she sided with Roberts and the libs on this one, she has joined the conservative justices in other cases, some of them significant.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Gordon Freeman 3/8/2025 3:41:13 AM (No. 1911020)
I don't care what anyone says, I don't think she is a constitutionist!
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Reply 3 - Posted by: 5 handicap 3/8/2025 5:47:51 AM (No. 1911058)
Interesting Argument #1, She's ony treasonous 20% of the time! Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were only treasonous once, but were hanged anyway!
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Reply 4 - Posted by: judy 3/8/2025 5:47:51 AM (No. 1911059)
Whatever... I still don't trust her! I think she's a phony..
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Reply 5 - Posted by: WhamDBambam 3/8/2025 6:39:12 AM (No. 1911095)
She hid behind procedure, I really don’t see any three-dimensional chess behind this.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: philsner 3/8/2025 6:45:37 AM (No. 1911102)
Beware of CNN's definition of "conservative".
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Strike3 3/8/2025 7:57:30 AM (No. 1911145)
Barrett may think that she is legally correct in her own mind but the morality of wasting billions of dollars of taxpayer funds on frivolous causes is the overriding factor here. The waste that Elon is exposing was originally accumulated on lies and deceit and contributes to a monstrous national debt.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: anniebc 3/8/2025 8:46:03 AM (No. 1911192)
Who needs them to defend her anyway? We can see with our two eyes what's happening with her, and it doesn't matter how many times she misses the mark; she either is or isn't a constitutionalist. This case was not her first betrayal of the Constitution. She's clearly not on our side. Bump her defenders. We ain't stupid out here. So called conservatives can't think they can continue to p$ss on us and say it's raining.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: BarryNo 3/8/2025 9:13:27 AM (No. 1911207)
Is Veteran Legal Conservatives how you spell RINO, these days? To our eyes the SCOTUS decision was akin to having a safe-cracker complain to a judge that he wasn't paid for his efforts in helping to rob the bank and the judge taking the cut from the stolen money to give to the safe-cracker before returning the remainder to the victims.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Rumblehog 3/8/2025 9:21:28 AM (No. 1911213)
It's a case of the U.S. Constitution, Article 2 v. Contract Law. The President of the United States is NOT obliged to pay "bribes" to foreign entities, or to fail in his obligation to be a good steward of tax-payer monies. Even a schoolchild would do a better answering that question correctly.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: paral04 3/8/2025 10:47:00 AM (No. 1911308)
The Supreme Court is there to test if judgements are Constitutional not decide where we spend or not spend out money This is outrageous..
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Reply 12 - Posted by: TexasHillCountry 3/8/2025 11:55:51 PM (No. 1911480)
Not an attorney myself, but have read some persuasive stuff from some who are that the particular law this activist district judge applied in fact does not apply. Barret is good on some things, but squishy on 2nd Amendment stuff, and some election issues. This is not a case that should allow a district judge to mandate the expenditure of $2 B tax dollars and affect foreign policy. What with USAID employees fleeing the country to avoid prosecution, this case should give us all second thoughts about it. I hope POTUS Trump ignores this decision for its encroachment by the Judicial Branch into Executive Branch territory, as well as the money which can never be recovered if paid and then later found to be mistakenly disbursed as Mr. Justice Alito mentioned.
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