Kayleigh McEnany Apologizes After Falsely Claiming Amy Coney Barrett Was a Rhodes Scholar: ‘My Bad’

Amy Coney Barrett be confirmed to the Supreme Court.The former mayor of South Bend, Ind., was appearing on Fox News on Sunday, Oct.

Seventh Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett is an exceptionally well-qualified jurist who would be an outstanding Supreme Court justice.  But even before President Donald Trump officially nominated her to serve on the nation’s highest court, voices on the left hurled vile personal accusations at her, trying to tarnish her reputation and drag her family in the mud with them.   So who is Barrett, really, and what kind of justice she will be? Let’s stick to the facts.   Barrett grew up in New Orleans,

If Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed for the Supreme Court, the credit will go to President Trump for nominating her and the GOP Senate for producing the votes. But Barrett will also owe a big thank you to Sen.

President Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett has been critiqued as a political move to ensure a ninth justice is on the Supreme Court if the election is challenged in November.The reality, however, is that Judge Barrett is an extremely qualified candidate for the high court. She is also exactly the kind of justice of faith our country needs on the bench.   A devout Catholic, she has been mocked for belonging to the People of Praise group.

Thousands of mostly young women in masks rallied Saturday in the nation's capital and other U.S. cities, exhorting voters to oppose President Donald Trump and his fellow Republican candidates in the Nov.

As Women’s March protesters reach the Supreme Court, they stand face to face with anti-abortion demonstrators. pic.twitter.com/CTCXIqXOU9— Samantha Schmidt (@schmidtsam7) October 17, 2020Also Read: Maher Says There Are Already Too Many Catholics on the Supreme Court (Video)Women’s March attendees are also voicing their displeasure with the president and calling on citizens to vote in the upcoming election.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorBill Maher lit into Amy Coney Barrett and the Catholic Church, saying the prospective Supreme Court justice has been “”groomed since birth” to overturn Roe v.

President Trump on Friday said convincing Republican Sen. Susan Collins to vote in favor of his Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett is “not worth the work,” noting that the senator from Maine has not supported him on other issues in the past.

pic.twitter.com/NDbjM4DqPC— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 15, 2020Judge Barrett did in fact refuse to answer dozens of questions, if not more, from Democratic Senators wanting to know her legal positions on a wide variety of critical topics, including abortion, same-sex marriage, and voting rights.The hearing, which concluded earlier Thursday, became so contentious this week that Barrett tried to even not answer questions about which the answers are basic facts, or matters of basic law that are

on contact to attacks on her as a mother. They’ve boiled her down to a single identity and everything she does or will do flows from that.But in touting the motherhood of Coney Barrett, Republicans haven’t just insulated Coney Barrett from Democrats’ questioning.

Jane Lynch pulled no punches in criticizing Sen. Lindsey Graham for his aside during the hearings to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.  The actress joined myriad celebrities speaking out on social media during the hearings to find out if President Trump’s court nomination should fill the seat left vacant by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died in September at age 87.  During his time, Graham took a moment to address comments made by Sen.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsTrevor Noah told viewers not to bother watching the Supreme Court hearings for the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett.“Please don’t waste your time because over the years, these hearings have become each party making big speeches about how the nominee’s going to save or destroy the party and then the nominee pretends that they have never had a point of view on anything,” The Daily Show host said on Monday night.Noah brought up clips of

Ted Johnson The long, repetitive confirmation hearing of Judge Amy Coney Barrett wound down on Tuesday with one of the more consequential interactions: questioning from Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), the vice presidential nominee.Harris devoted much of her time to highlighting the potential impact that Barrett’s ascension to the high court would have on the future of the Affordable Care Act.

Obergefell decision, which legalized marriage equality by striking down all bans on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional. “I have no agenda, and I do want to be clear that that I have never discriminated on the basis of sexual preference and would not ever discriminate on the basis of sexual preference,” Barrett said. “Like racism, I think discrimination is abhorrent.”Later in the day, Barrett was called out for those remarks by Sen.

Ted Johnson Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing on Tuesday played out almost exactly how you would expect.As recent nominees before her have done, she avoided committing to a view on an array of different hotbed issues, including the Affordable Care Act, which is pending before the court next month; gun rights and abortion rights.“Do you agree with Justice Scalia’s view that Roe was wrongly decided?” asked Sen.

Ted Johnson A highlight of the opening day of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination was how committee member and vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris would frame Democratic opposition.To start, Harris attacked the idea of even holding a hearing amid the COVID-19 epidemic and an outbreak among members of the committee.Appearing remotely from her office, Harris said, “This hearing has brought together more than 50 people to sit inside of a

U.S. Capitol Police arrested 21 demonstrators for crowding and obstruction outside Judge Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building around 8:30 a.m.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe Senate Judiciary Committee will begin Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett on Monday at 9 a.m. ET/6 a.m.