Summary
Justice Amy Coney Barrett sided with the Supreme Court’s three liberal justices to co-sign key parts of Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s blistering dissent in a 5-4 ruling allowing Trump to resume deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members.
The four female justices warned the deportations could “have life or death consequences” for detainees sent to El Salvador’s CECOT mega-prison without judicial review.
Right-wing figures erupted, branding Barrett a “DEI hire” and “disgraceful.”
Influencers like Mike Cernovich and Charlie Kirk accused her of betraying conservative values despite past praise.
The bar for resisters in high places is so low that a bum off the streets, not living in reality, could vote against a crime while enabling countless other injustices.
And they would be feted, cheered, wined and dined by the high and low. They would be seen as good people, and remembered in history. School children would be inspired