A one, dominant theme has emerged from Amy Coney Barrett’s testimony for the duration of her confirmation hearing for the U.S. Supreme Courtroom this week: She is, she has continuously mentioned, a “textualist” who believes that the plain indicating of a statute reigns supreme, that the position of composing individuals […]
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With Amy Coney Barrett, a once-fringe legal philosophy goes mainstream
Austin, Texas Before she joined 100 fellow law students at the Blackstone Legal Fellowship, Leah Boyd, now a practicing attorney in Amarillo, Texas, felt discouraged and hopeless in her first year of law school. These were the people who were going to be shaping the laws and the culture in […]