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Advocate for the kingdom of God
Barrett has been on the Court of Appeals for three years in the Chicago-based seventh district, already promoted to that position by Trump, where she has intervened in a hundred cases. Previously, he had taught for 15 years at Notre Dame, a university with strong Catholic roots and from which he graduated with honors. She addressed students in a speech at the beginning of the academic year in 2006 asking them to “remember that your legal profession is a means to an end, and that end is to build the kingdom of God.”
People of worship, association or sect?
Notre Dame also has another, curious distinction relevant to Barrett’s intellectual profile: It was the birthplace of a small and little-known religious organization called the People of Praise, which critics define as a sect or a cult. and that he saw Barrett among his disciples. Born in 1971, in the era after the opening of the Second Vatican Council, it welcomed mainly Catholics, but also other Christian denominations. Over the years it experienced a growing evolution towards the defense of traditional values, the bulwark of the social status quo, along with the more fundamentalist American evangelical currents. With some very particular additions: adherents who speak in secret tongues, prophecies, divine care, and narrow divisions of roles. Women, former members say, could have access to an intern with a revealing name, servant, servant or servant. Some argued that the organization inspired Margaret Atwood’s now classic novel on female oppression “The Handmaid’s Tale.” A hypothesis that has been denied, but that when it ended up in the spotlight showed the great tension and division of the country in front of the event.
A history of controversy
Controversy had already erupted when the Senate confirmed Barrett, opposed by a majority of Democrats, as a judge on the federal appeals court in Chicago. On that occasion, the Californian Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein confronted her during the hearings saying that “the dogma speaks very clearly” in her attitudes. Barrett responded by claiming the depth of his faith, but added that his personal and religious beliefs would not influence his legal positions and decisions. A statement that left critics skeptical.
The letter of the law
Furthermore, their legal beliefs are equally or more controversial. It is considered Originalist and Textualist, as a result of the best known exponent of these theses, Antonin Scalia. The Textualim applies in general to the law, interpreted literally ignoring the intentions of the legislator. Originalism is the antithesis of the idea of the liberal and progressive wing that the Constitution is a “living document” and that the interpretation evolves with the times and is opposed to social reality, it is an attitude that bets on faith. to an original meaning attributed to the authors. Originalism and textualism have become the flags of a conservative movement that on the judicial and legal front launched a successful crusade for the conquest of the courts, to counter what had been the socially progressive action of the Supreme Court and the judiciary federal between the 1950s and 1950s. the seventies, the years of the expansion of civil rights.
Scalia Assistant
Barrett had carved his teeth as a clerk, close assistant, to the aforementioned Scalia on the Supreme Court before moving on to university teaching. Scalia, the ultra-conservative ideologue of the Court who died prematurely in 2016, was, for example, the great author of the decision that found in the Second Amendment to the Constitution an individual right to arms, a conclusion considered unclear by many jurists and constitutionalists. As an assistant, he had been noted for his legal acumen. As a judge, Barrett continued to fly a strictly conservative flag that made him a star in Republican and radical right-wing circles. He has spoken out in favor of the Trump administration in cases against immigrant rights, as well as against Obamacare healthcare reform, where he openly criticized the Chief Justice himself, the moderate conservative John Roberts, when his vote saved the reform. of a rejection. The future of Obamacare will be back in Superior Court on November 10. On abortion in the past, Barrett has insisted on the right of individual states to drastically limit women’s access to the procedure, although not necessarily on the need to revoke the constitutional right established by Roe v. Wade.
