'We had too much hope for her': Justice Coney Barrett has Trump allies fuming

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett's growing alliance with the liberal wing of the court has members of Donald Trump's inner circle kicking themselves for handing her a lifetime appointment.

According to a report from the New York Times' Jodi Kantor, there was some resistance to her nomination to fill the seat previously held by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but the president overruled them believing she would help him the evangelical vote.

It turns out both camps were right, and now there is dismay in the White House about her "leftward tilt."

Case in point, from the Times: "When Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan agreed on nonunanimous decisions this term, Justice Barrett joined them 82 percent of the time — up from 39 percent of the time in her first term."

The report notes, "Some of Mr. Trump’s allies have turned on her, accusing the justice of being a turncoat and calling her — a mother of seven, with two Black children adopted from Haiti — a 'D.E.I. hire,'" Kantor wrote before adding, "She has become the Republican-appointed justice most likely to be in the majority in decisions that reach a liberal outcome, according to a new analysis of her record prepared for The New York Times. Her influence — measured by how often she is on the winning side — is rising. Along with the chief justice, a frequent voting partner, Justice Barrett could be one of the few people in the country to check the actions of the president."

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Far-right legal activist Mike Davis complained, "We had too much hope for her. She doesn’t have enough courage.”

The report goes on to note, "Mr. Trump has privately complained about her too, according to two people familiar with his thinking."

According to Noah Feldman, a Harvard law professor who has been friends with her since they served as clerks together, he is not surprised at the direction she has been taking.

"It’s a mistake by ignorant conservatives and wishful liberals to believe she’s moderating,” he explained. "She’s exactly the person I met 25 years ago: principled, absolutely conservative, not interested in shifting.”

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