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volstork

(5,401 posts)
Thu Oct 22, 2020, 09:06 AM Oct 2020

"Breathing is not a constitutional right."

https://www.theroot.com/unqualified-impunity-amy-coney-barrett-once-ruled-that-1845429637

Amy Coney Barrett is a right-wing extremist.

She does not believe George Floyd had a right to breathe. She doesn’t believe that screaming the n-word is necessarily “hostile.”

She does believe in Jesus, though.

While Judge Barrett has displayed a Mitch McConnell-like ability to evade direct questions about her legal opinions on a woman’s right to control her own body, whether or not poor people deserve to die if they can’t afford healthcare, or if Social Security is constitutional, we already know Barrett’s judicial positions in one important area of the law. As a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeal’s Seventh Circuit, the right-wing star of the literal handmaid’s tale has repeatedly joined her fellow conservative bench mates in asserting the right of police to do whatever they want—the Constitution be damned.

When it comes to police brutality, one does not have to speculate or engage in conjecture to know the opinion of the woman set to take Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on America’s highest court. Barrett may be able to duck and dodge questions about her well-documented anti-choice stance or her pro-death healthcare views, but her judicial record makes one thing obvious:

Amy Coney Barrett clearly does not believe Black lives matter.

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"Breathing is not a constitutional right." (Original Post) volstork Oct 2020 OP
"Breathing is not a constitutional right." So....NOT "pro-life"? BComplex Oct 2020 #1
She believes in Republican Jesus Bettie Oct 2020 #2

BComplex

(8,051 posts)
1. "Breathing is not a constitutional right." So....NOT "pro-life"?
Thu Oct 22, 2020, 09:40 AM
Oct 2020

These people are so fucking messed up.

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