Reacting to conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett jumping in and siding with liberal Justice Elena Kagan during a hearing on birthright citizenship, a CNN analyst noted her tendency of late to deviate from the policies of the man who gave her a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
Sitting on a panel with host Audie Cornish, CNN analyst Edward-Isaac Dovere sat and listened to clips of Coney Barrett grilling Donald Trump's Solicitor General John Sauer about the president's executive order which is at the heart of the historic legal case.
Following the clip, host Cornish asked, "I'm going to translate a little. There's been this conversation about whether there can be kind of class action lawsuits, and that's the way people can get relief rather than going to a judge in any particular state. But it's the tone, right? Let's pretend we don't know the words, but the tone of her jumping in and saying, are you really going to do that? What did you hear in these moments?"
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"I would say that from years of watching or listening to supreme court proceedings and trying to guess where they're going, we should all learn that," Dovere offered. "It's a tricky game."
"Amy Coney Barrett was put on the Supreme Court by Donald Trump," he reminded the panel. "She is a has a pretty strong record of voting in the way that one would expect a Trump nominee to vote. On decisions she has diverged a little bit, but not in this way that gets her –– that seems to me to validate this idea that she has completely left the Trump side."
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