Main Street: With the nomination of Catholic Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, will Joe Biden's Democratic Party practice what it preaches? Images: AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyAmy Coney Barrett has been not-so-subtly depicted as straight out of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Margaret Atwood’s dystopian 1985 novel. Judge Barrett, a mother of seven who sits on the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, belongs to a Christian group known as People of Praise.
Some might have been surprised Saturday to learn that Judge Barrett lives in a household where her “superb and generous husband” often cooks and does “far more than his share of the work” raising their children. What she has said about work and family over the years confounds the normal contours of the culture wars. She is a walking example of how young children and demanding work can coexist—I dare suggest even happily. More women should hear her message of personal decency and nonconformity.
Interviews with Judge Barrett invariably ask how she balances her professional obligations with the demands of raising seven children. At a February 2019with the Notre Dame Club of Washington, D.C., Judge Barrett said she’s benefited from “a flexible workplace and a husband” who “pitches in, and a town of a manageable size”—South Bend., Ind., where she spent more than a decade as a Notre Dame law professor. She used to keep a basket of toys in her office so her kids could play while she worked.
She and her husband, Jesse, a former government attorney now in private practice, “were open to either one of us staying home” at “different points when things were intense with the children,” a trading back and forth that is common in dual-career marriages. Since her 2017 investiture as a judge, “Jesse is really doing much more of the heavy lifting,” including “most of the cooking” and “most of the kids’ doctor’s appointments and things like that during the day.
At her 2017 confirmation hearing, she introduced her older children and joked that the others were back home with “friends and fearless babysitters,” a line she used again Saturday. When her kids visit her courtroom, they like to “write out indictments for one another,”earlier this year. She’s mentioned leaving work to, say, run an activity at a kid’s school. This life of blending worlds sounds familiar.
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opinion katebachwsj A member of right wing fascist circle👎
opinion katebachwsj Or, ... will she willfully allow Trump0 yo mount her?
opinion katebachwsj I hadn't heard anyone on the left portraying her this way or engaged in discrimination against Catholics until I got to the WSJ OpEd. Why is so important to the right to make the left out as enemies on almost every issue? Shouldn't the right's ideas stand on their own?
opinion katebachwsj Do what I say don’t do what I do?
opinion katebachwsj Hey WSJ make it less obvious your are owned by the same guy who own Fox News.
opinion katebachwsj Anyone who Donald Trump thinks should be on the court is automatically a terrible pick for the Supreme Court
opinion katebachwsj Keep saying it over and over until the public just accepts it. State media game plan.
opinion katebachwsj Wasn't Serena Joy(Thelma) a televangelist in the book, who lost all of her power and prestige as a result of the takeover she helped instigate?
opinion katebachwsj It's the 'kinder' liberals in action.
opinion katebachwsj If Barrett were the decent person you portray, she would have insisted that RBG's wishes be followed as to timing of the successor nomination, hearings and investiture.
opinion katebachwsj I prefer her argument for why she shouldn’t be seated
opinion katebachwsj OK - she’s a saint
opinion katebachwsj That she would even consider this nomination, through a corrupt process; against the wishes of the majority of Americans, from an admitted sexual assaulter who would be indicted if not holding office of the president, is all you need to know about Mrs Barrett's character.
opinion katebachwsj Facts have no place in the left's narrative
opinion katebachwsj Just say you don't support women's rights don't need a shitty opinion piece
opinion katebachwsj The bottom line is that her rulings have the potential to cause tragedy and pain to millions of people. Otherwise she's probably a fine human being.
opinion katebachwsj So she's a working mom. Big deal, millions of us are. Her views are narrow and archaic. This is not someone we should have in a lifetime appointment.
opinion katebachwsj This is a signal of how McConnell et al will frame the conversation in order to woo the suburban 'housewife' back. Even when no one is leveling such an attack, McConnell's bought and paid for media blitz will say they are.
opinion katebachwsj Catholic Integralists like Barr (and Barrett) are a danger to American democracy. They don’t believe in one of the most important tenets of American democracy. Separation of church and state.
opinion katebachwsj God bless you Amy Barrett
opinion katebachwsj She is more than a caricature with her membership in People of Praise, relying on prophecy to make 'decisions', she is a sleaze; accepting a nomination from a crook while people are voting whereby in 2016 she agreed on the blocking of Judge Garland 10 months before an Election.
opinion katebachwsj The phrase “wildly at odds with the reality” ca be applied to a lot of the Dems’ thoughts since Trump got elected.
opinion katebachwsj ... the caricature of her as an opportunistic stooge grown in a Federalist Society test tube, however, remains entirely fact-based.
opinion katebachwsj I wonder what she thinks happens to people after their bodies have rotted in the grave or burnt in the crematorium. Never met a single Christian who can convince themselves on the answer to that one.
opinion katebachwsj Here’s the deal, WSJ: just because one or even a few people express their opinions on social media, that does not mean that there is some overall caricature of someone. Stop taking Twitter bait. This opinion piece is essentially a Twitter battle with more characters.
opinion katebachwsj Amy Coney Barrett is objectively an outstanding choice for the nomination
opinion katebachwsj Ya. By stealing children away from their parents after the earthquake. She a deplorable through and through.
opinion katebachwsj Serena Joy Waterford looked wildly successful in the book as well. It's not just a book about the Handmaids....
opinion katebachwsj Textual-ism made conservative heads explode when Gorsuch authored a decision barring employers firing LGBT employees. A Judge who REALLY reads the Constitution and Laws is just as likely to piss of conservatives as liberals.
opinion katebachwsj Fucking nope 👎
opinion katebachwsj This note is what is commonly referred to as a straw man. No one evenly remotely credible has made such a claim. Rupert and the WSJ have about the same level of integrity as Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham.
opinion katebachwsj She just wants poor women to be a caricature of the handmaid’s tale - important distinction!
opinion katebachwsj She's an example for working mothers? How, when her rulings and statements so often go against women's choices and protecting working people?
opinion katebachwsj She will be given her marching orders by Mitch McConnell. Get rid of the ACA. Overturn Roe.
opinion katebachwsj Textualism does not always fall to the Conservative side. Examples: SCOTUS ruled that if Congress delegated regulation of substances to the executive branch, it could not later cherry pick, removing Co2 from EPA regulation. Scotus read the law, and followed it.
opinion katebachwsj So she wouldn't be in favor of making abortion illegal again?
opinion katebachwsj Democrats who portray her as anything other than a moral, educated, successful, extremely intelligent woman, mother, wife...do so not only at their own peril, but they endanger ALL Dems by association...even though most Dems respect her.
opinion katebachwsj Why would you post something under the Wall Street Journal banner when it is an opinion piece? Don't you think that people have enough problems understanding the difference, or do you like the fact that people are that stupid?
opinion katebachwsj Q sorceress, simple.
opinion katebachwsj Can she find the courtroom by herself
opinion katebachwsj So, what is her political standing?
opinion katebachwsj Blah-blah-blah. She's going to help end healthcare for millions while a lethal pandemic rages. What more do you assholes need to know? TrumpVirus TrumpDoesntCare AmyPhonyBarrett
opinion katebachwsj “Working mothers”😂probably lives in a mansion with nannies.
opinion katebachwsj What’s her voting record say?
opinion katebachwsj Her beliefs are closer to the show.
opinion katebachwsj From a concerned well-wisher: the caricature of the being a sycophantic mouthpiece for the Trump campaign is well deserved and often understated.
opinion katebachwsj Amy Barret is a good candidate. Should be the next judge. Agreed.
opinion katebachwsj Girl, fuck you. This woman chose motherhood and all American women--not just rich ones--should have the right to decide if and when becoming a mother is right for them as well.
opinion katebachwsj Nah, she’s pretty creepy!
opinion katebachwsj Another trumpist writing an opinion article that is published as 'news'... pass. Blessed be the fruit
opinion katebachwsj 'People of Praise'...not a good look, Amy. And, for such a young woman....
opinion katebachwsj My 9yr old Trans Son came screaming out of his room today crying about the SCOTUS pick. He said if she is appointed does that mean all LGBTQ people have to live in concentration camps now? I was speechless. He ran back to his room… I’M SHAKING!
opinion katebachwsj Its because she crushes the narrative that to be a woman with a succesfull career you need to be single and chidless at 45 which is something they dont want. Biggest scam in human history is tricking the world into thinking ANY job is more important/worthwhile than motherhood
opinion katebachwsj Trump wants voters to forget the dire reality of millions of Americans out of work, high unemployment, 30+million uninsured during a pandemic, 202K+ COVID19 deaths, racial unrest, a ruined economy, corrupt government, and just to blindly give him 4 more years. Don't! VoteHimOut
opinion katebachwsj May the lord open.
opinion katebachwsj WSJ So the Senate can move quickly on a Supreme Court Justice, BUT WILL DELAY A CRISIS FUND for a pandemic resulting in 209,815 US DEATHS 1K/D As *30 Million unemployed *losing health insurance With Record *Company Bankruptcies *Home Foreclosures *Families being Evicted PATHETIC
opinion katebachwsj American Taliban. Plain and simple.
opinion katebachwsj The reality is only the rich will have access to abortions. Poor people sinking back to pre Roe v Wade situations...which I don't even want to imagine.
opinion katebachwsj Just one week after the election, the Supreme Court will be hearing another challenge to the ACA. Senate Republicans want to rush Judge Barrett through so she can be the deciding vote to strike down health care for millions. That’s unconscionable. SaveOurHealthCare
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