Amy Coney Barrett in Trump Research Book
On Abortion:
Life begins at conception
Amy Coney Barrett has been vocal about her anti-abortion views, claiming that, in regards to abortion, "both the state and the unborn child's mother are.acting with gross unfairness to the unborn child." Barrett also stated that she believed
unlike war and capital punishment, the prohibition against abortion was absolute; she also claimed that God's status as the "lord of life" made a convincing argument against abortion. Likewise, Barret believed that life begins at conception.
Source: Analysis of positions in 2020 Trump Research Book
Sep 22, 2020
On Civil Rights:
Indissoluble Christian commitment of a man and a woman
According to the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights via Targeted News Service, "LGBT Rights: Professor Barrett has expressed deeply held opposition to marriage equality, signing on to an October
2015 letter that stated: 'We give witness that the Church's teachings - on the dignity of the human person and the value of human life from conception to natural death; on the meaning of human sexuality, the significance of sexual difference and the
complementarity of men and women; on openness to life and the gift of motherhood; and on marriage and family founded on the indissoluble commitment of a man and a woman - provide a sure guide to the
Christian life.' This language, embraced by Professor Barrett, is in direct conflict with the Supreme Court's June 2015 decision, Obergefell v. Hodges, which established a constitutional right to marriage equality in America.
Source: Analysis of positions in 2020 Trump Research Book
Sep 22, 2020
On Crime:
Miranda doctrine overenforces a constitutional norm
Amy Coney Barrett wrote, "The gap may be the result of the court's choice to overenforce a constitutional norm by developing prophylactic doctrines that go beyond constitutional meaning.
The Miranda doctrine, which inevitably excludes from evidence even some confessions freely given, is an example." [90 Boston University Law Review 109 -Substantive Canon and Faithful Agency, 1/2010]
Source: Analysis of positions in 2020 Trump Research Book
Sep 22, 2020
On Gun Control:
No blanket authorization to take guns from felons
Barnett said a lecture held by Hillsdale College about her dissent in the 2nd amendment rights case Cantor v Barr, "There was no blanket authorization to take guns, the right to possess a gun from someone who committed a felony. That sounds kind of
radical, to say felons can have firearms, but I think it's because what the longstanding prohibitions were and had been even under federal law until more recently, was that violent felons couldn't have firearms. There's been a longstanding practice--
what the history showed me--is of those who pose a threat to the community cannot have firearms. And that makes sense, history is consistent with common sense. Those who would be risky with guns, who would pose danger with guns, then the state can take
guns away. But in the instance of someone in which the state has not shown that the person has demonstrated any risk, the mere status of committing a felony, I found no historical support that said the state was then justified in taking it away.
Source: Analysis of positions in 2020 Trump Research Book
Sep 22, 2020
On Health Care:
Opposes ObamaCare and its religious exemption
Barrett has been clear on her views towards the Affordable Care Act. She has attacked both SCOTUS decisions that upheld ACA. Barrett took issue with Roberts' interpretation of the mandate saying he pushed it beyond plausible meaning, to save the law.
Barrett believed Scalia's dissent in 2015 was the better legal argument.Barrett also signed a letter to the Obama administration critical of the ACA's religious exemption calling it a "cheap accounting trick," and an "assault on religious liberty."
Source: Analysis of positions in 2020 Trump Research Book
Sep 22, 2020
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