Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett was on the receiving end of no small amount of ridicule on MSNBC on Saturday morning over her book tour that has done nothing to burnish her reputation and is instead having the opposite effect.
On MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern pounced on Barrett’s remarks about the court’s so-called “shadow docket,” which has allowed the conservative court to keep backing Donald Trump without showing their work.
Barrett is currently on the road promoting her book “Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution,” and, as Stern noted, she has created more controversy every time she speaks.
"First of all, I think that Amy Coney Barrett's little book tour has shown that she's not ready for prime time at all,” he began. “She has had a number of flops that show she is not camera-ready, she has really struggled to connect with the public, to translate legalese into anything that normal people can understand.”
“I think she's really floundering out there, and this is one great example. You know, Justice Barrett, if the Supreme Court doesn't have enough facts to make a strong decision and doesn't have a good enough grasp on the law to make a definitive ruling, maybe it shouldn't be ruling at all,” he continued to the amusement of the MSNBC co-hosts.
“That's how the Supreme Court operated for the first 200-some odd years of its existence, and it was only in the last few years that the conservative justices decided that they would start leaping in at every moment to rule in favor of Republicans whenever they could,“ he added.