2025-03-08 15:20:35

‘She is evil’: Amy Coney Barrett under attack by the right wing after supreme court USAid ruling

Conservative justice who frequently votes with the far-right side of the supreme court faces backlash for recent rulingAmy Coney Barrett, the Donald Trump-appointed conservative supreme court justice, has been branded a “DEI judge” by furious rightwing figures, after she voted to reject Trump’s attempt to freeze nearly $2bn in foreign aid.Coney Barrett, part of the court’s rightwing majority, split with her fellow conservative justices this week. She and John Roberts, the chief justice, voted to leave in place a ruling from a US district judge which ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze the nearly $2bn in aid for foreign aid work that had already been performed, and that had been approved by Congress. Continue reading...
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