


Right-wing influencers are turning against U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett after she voted against President Donald Trump’s use of the wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport Venezuelan migrants.
The conservative majority Supreme Court voted 5-4 in favor of the Trump administration on Monday, allowing it to enforce the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members, but limited its authority to allow the accused “reasonable time” to go to court and challenge the case against them.

Barrett, who Trump appointed in 2020, joined Democrat-appointed Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor in dissenting against the president’s use of the act.
Sotomayor called the majority decision “suspect,” writing in the principal dissent that it ignored “the grave harm Plaintiffs will face if they are erroneously removed to El Salvador or regard for the Government’s attempts to subvert the judicial process throughout this litigation.”
Though Barrett voted with the liberal justices, she only joined some portions of the dissent. Her name is included in a section that argues that someone subject to deportation must be notified, and one that criticizes the Supreme Court for hearing Trump’s case as an emergency and overruling lower courts that had halted certain deportations.
Barrett’s vote has made her the target of attacks from many right-wing influencers on X, some of whom even went after her two adopted Black children.
Conservative pundit and former Trump supporter Ann Coulter posted a photo showing the justice with her children and wrote, “Who could’ve seen that coming?”
Sam Parker, a MAGA Republican who ran for Senate in Utah in 2018, also posted a photo of Barrett’s family, with the caption “Who could have predicted Amy Coney Barrett would sell out her own people? If only there had been a sign.”
Other conservative commentators joined the conversation, including Catturd — a MAGA personality with 3.6 million X followers — who called Barrett “an absolute disgusting fraud.”
“Trump appointed her and gave her her dream job and complimented her and praised her - and she’s been an ungrateful, backstabbing POS since day one,” the account wrote.
And after Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) called Barrett’s dissent “disappointing,” X owner and Trump adviser Elon Musk weighed in with his own opinion, writing, “Suicidal empathy is a civilizational risk.”
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