As Justice Amy Coney Barrett releases her new memoir, CNN Supreme Court analyst Joan Biskupic couldn’t help but trash the part of the book where Barrett defends overturning Roe v. Wade. On Tuesday’s The Situation Room, Biskupic claimed that Barrett’s claim that Roe undermined the democratic process was bad because the Constitution is to be interpreted to protect minority rights, a claim that is not only not accurate but also one that Biskupic only seems to be applying to abortion.
Biskupic began with the suggestion that the country will survive or fall in the Trump era based on Barrett’s rulings, “She’s arguably the most important justice on a Court at such a crucial time in America, testing how much it will check President Trump's effort to really remake the country.”
Getting to Roe, Biskupic notes, “You know that one of the foundational principles of the Supreme Court is loyalty to precedent. And this was a 1973 ruling that they were tossing out. And she said that that decision should not even have existed in the first place, because it did not rise to the level of a true constitutional right.”
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