Amy Coney Barrett Tears Into Trump Official to Defend Liberal Justice at Supreme Court [View all]
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett ripped into President Donald Trump’s solicitor general on Thursday for disrespecting one of the high court’s liberal justices.
Barrett, who was appointed by Trump in 2020 but has recently drawn the ire of MAGA, slammed Solicitor General Dean John Sauer for giving what she felt was an insufficient response to Justice Elena Kagan, an appointee of Barack Obama.
Barrett stepped in after Sauer’s answer and asked, “Sir, are you really going to answer Justice Kagan by saying there’s no way to do this expeditiously?”
She added, “You resisted Justice Kagan when she said, ‘Could the individual plaintiffs form a class...’ Were a class appropriate for class certification, you can see that it could resolve the question quickly?”
Sauer, who represented Trump in his federal obstruction case, responded: “Yes, absolutely it could do so. I mean, we obviously dispute that...”
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