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It’s Too Bad Amy Coney Barrett Can’t Seem to Do Anything to Stop Systemic Racism
In her world, racism exists, but there’s nothing a lowly federal judge could — or should — do about it
Amy Coney Barrett is likely going to be rammed through the Supreme Court approval process before the election, meaning in a few weeks, there will be another conservative justice on the court.
During the confirmation hearings, Barrett has been asked about systemic racism in the criminal justice system and the country at large.
“It would be hard to imagine a criminal justice system as big as ours without having an implicit bias in it,” Barrett said. “I think that in our large criminal justice system, it would be inconceivable that there wasn’t some implicit bias.”
But when it comes to her role in that criminal justice system, Barrett said that it was actually lawmakers’ responsibility to tackle systemic racism, not judges, according to NPR.
In Amy Coney Barrett’s world, racism exists, but there’s nothing a lowly federal judge could — or should — do about it.
This might be due to the fact that Barrett claims to be an originalist, meaning she takes the Constitution’s text literally and does not attempt to translate it…
