Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett defended the 2022 Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, saying that it was a state’s right issue that should be “properly left to the democratic process.” During an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday with host Norah O’Donnell, Barrett also said justices need to “tune out” the noise from critics like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
"Dobbs did not render abortion illegal. Dobbs did not say anything about whether abortion is immoral. Dobbs said that these are questions that are left to the states. And all of these kinds of questions – decisions that you mention that require medical judgments – are not ones that our Constitution connects to the courts, you know, to decide how far into pregnancy the right of abortion might extend. You know, the court was in the business of drawing a lot of those lines before, and what Dobbs says is that those calls are properly left to the democratic process. And the states have been working those out. There's been a lot of legislative activity and a lot of state constitutional activity since the decision in Dobbs was rendered," Barrett said.
CBS had released excerpts on Thursday:
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O’Donnell asked Barrett about criticism from folks like Clinton. People “say a lot of different things,” the justice retorted:
"So when Hillary Clinton, for example, says what’s next, she said, ‘my prediction is the court will do to gay marriage what they did to abortion,’'" O'Donnell said.
Barrett responded, "I think people who criticize the court who are outside say a lot of different things, but again the point that I make in the book is that we have to tune those things out."
Barrett’s book, "Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution," is slated for release on September 9. She is scheduled to give a talk about it that evening at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.
Earlier this month, as my colleague Katie Jerkovich reported, the Free Press printed an excerpt from the tome where Barrett fired a shot across the bow of activist judges who let their personal views guide their judgment on the law:
And when it comes to the role of judges, Barrett wrote, "Like Americans more generally, judges hold diverse views about the values by which a just society should live. Yet under the Constitution, the choice between these competing views is made by citizens in the democratic process, not by judges settling disputes."
"On the bench, we must suppress our individual beliefs in deference to those that have prevailed in the enacted law," she added. "Our job is to protect the choices that citizens have made, even when we disagree with them…"
"They [judges] are referees, not kings, because they decide whether people have played by the rules rather than what the rules should be," Barrett continued.
Look for liberal heads to explode as progressives find out more about what Barrett has to say.
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