Prominent legal conservatives on Friday sought to tamp down a wave of sudden criticism directed at Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett over her vote to reject President Donald Trump’s attempt to freeze nearly $2 billion in foreign aid.
The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling on Tuesday that strikes down some rule that allowed the Environmental Protection Agency to limit the amount of pollution discharged into America’s waterways. The ruling was 5-4, with Amy Coney Barrett joining the court’s more liberal justices in dissenting.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett has joined Chief Justice John Roberts as the "conservative" members of the Supreme Court most likely to side with its liberal wing. The most recent example was this week when Roberts and Barrett joined with Justices Sonia Sotomayor,