15-07-2025
What the left – and right – gets wrong about Amy Coney Barrett
Ilya Shapiro is director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute and author of 'Lawless: The Miseducation of America's Elites.'
Amy Coney Barrett can't catch a break. After she issued the majority opinion in Trump v. CASA — limiting the power of district courts to issue nationwide injunctions — the left came down on her, hard. Progressive commentators decried her decision to curtail restrictions on executive orders, calling it 'an existential threat to the rule of law itself.'