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 justice doesn’t deserve the vitriol directed toward her.
The court rarely sides with death row inmates, so this rebuke to dishonest prosecutors is a remarkable victory in the fight against unconstitutional executions. But the case has several unusual features that make it more of an outlier than the turn of a new leaf.
Supporters of President Donald Trump are lashing out against a member of the Supreme Court whom Trump appointed after she joined a ruling against the Trump administration’s bid to block $2 billion in foreign aid payment.