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'Ruth Bader Ginsburg had been seated on the Supreme Court for only a year, in 1994, when a group of professors at the University of Notre Dame first recognized the potential of a first-year law student and began paving the way for her career as a conservative jurist: collaborating on scholarship, helping her land a Supreme Court clerkship and later recruiting her to the law schoolโs faculty.
'The group was part of a growing legal movement opposed to the secularization of American society generally and to the Supreme Courtโs Roe v. Wade ruling in particular. The 1973 abortion-rights decision not only struck many conservatives as an affront their religious values, but to the principle of judicial restraint. To wage what would be a decades-long fight to reverse the activist decisions of the court from 1950s to the 1970s, they needed young legal minds like Barrettโs.
'The plan worked better than they could have hoped. Now a judge on the Seventh Circuit, Barrett is the leading contender for President Donald Trumpโs nomination to replace Ginsburg on the court. Her ascension would be a coup for Catholic culture warriors 25 years in the making and a high point in the rightโs decades-long project of reshaping the judiciary.
'โShe was kind of the Manchurian candidate,โ said one former colleague at Notre Dame Law School. โSheโs been groomed for this moment all the way along.โ
'The notion of a new breed of Supreme Court candidate โ younger, so as to serve a long tenure on the court; ideologically consistent but low-key in personality; buoyed by outstanding academic stature and experience on the lower courts โ took hold after the searing nomination fight over conservative firebrand Robert Bork ended in defeat in 1987. Borkโs abrasive personality and long history of staking out contentious positions had marked him for defeat. In the future, judicial nominees would need to take greater care to be politically appealing and personally presentable...' - Politico, 09/20/2020