It’s bad enough that Amy Coney Barrett is a Supreme Court nominee. But the fact that she’s a Supreme Court nominee who is also an accomplished jurist and mother of seven … that’s just unconscionable.
At least according to Slate:
Barrett has established who she is: a shameless careerist who believes nobody can stop her. https://t.co/0EffANIGGK
— Slate (@Slate) October 12, 2020
Tom Scocca writes:
And Barrett is encouraging this. The coverage of her campaign for the position projects an odd passivity onto her, as if she’s simply been caught up in events controlled by others. But the truth is that she’s actively lobbying for the job, calling senators to help push the process along, even as the virus runs loose through official Washington. She reportedly already had the virus during the summer, so the odds are it’s not going to harm her personally.
And he concludes:
But Barrett knows perfectly well that the public is against Trump and McConnell, and against her, too. She is determined to win this victory right now, while she still can, for herself and her agenda. The will of the public doesn’t enter into it, any more than morality does. Barrett is an educated person. She graduated at the top of her law school class. She certainly can count past four. She knows Antonin Scalia, the justice she clerked for, died in February of 2016, and that Ginsburg died in September of 2020—four years and seven months apart—and that Trump is claiming the right to fill both vacancies.
What sort of prospective Supreme Court justice believes a president should get five years’ worth of court picks in a four-year term? The same kind who puts herself forward for an impossibly rushed confirmation process, and who declines to say if she’ll recuse herself from cases that might decide the reelection of the president who is taking such extraordinary measures to give her the job. Like McConnell and Trump, her vision of the law is based on nothing more than what she can get away with; the Constitution is a set of rules to be gamed for personal advantage, not a framework for popular legitimacy or justice. The entire presidency of Donald Trump has been building toward this moment, and Amy Coney Barrett is the woman he was waiting for.
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That Amy Coney Barrett gives women such a bad name!
Careerist women! Well, I never. https://t.co/JiUFhDvOwb
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) October 12, 2020
Too ambitious!
— Boomieleaks (@Boomieleaks) October 12, 2020
those damn women and their
*checks notes*
… ambition https://t.co/PaL7ntXqwS
— Jordan Lancaster (@jordylancaster) October 12, 2020
Apparently it’s now bad for a woman to have a career and be ambitious. Ima gonna tell my female partners. https://t.co/DZjyUAvoBa
— Joe Pilot, MD (@JoeSilverman7) October 12, 2020
I agree with @tomscocca. We must not allow any other women on the Supreme Court. https://t.co/Z0M14HsLwT
— I did not and will not vote for him. Calm down. (@jtLOL) October 12, 2020
When women aspire to more it is “shameless?”
Women shouldn't be empowered or believe they can achieve their dreams?
So… women need to know their place?
Do you think that place is the kitchen?
— Lyndsey Fifield (@lyndseyfifield) October 12, 2020
That kind of seems to be the argument they’re making here.
Wow, quite a sexist framing here. https://t.co/7CvmSsY2VB
— Brad Polumbo ??⚽️ ?️? (@brad_polumbo) October 12, 2020
"Shameless careerist": male-journalist-code for women who are ambitious and have more successful careers than they. https://t.co/yrDVqZzHYF
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 12, 2020
To be fair, it’s not just male journalists who are pulling this crap.
You guys have absolutely no idea how any of this works, do you. https://t.co/lR1HNHBBzO
— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) October 12, 2020
Plenty of gals don’t have any idea, either:
It does seem telling that the Republicans who have spoken so far have emphasized Amy Coney Barrett's fertility and family size. It's almost like the message is, ok you're a very successful Career Woman, but you've justified your selfish ambitions by having seven kids so it's ok.
— Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) October 12, 2020
Good Lord.
Them: “Don’t stand in a woman’s way! They can accomplish anything! Go, girl. Rawr.”
Also them: pic.twitter.com/NebKhQU2Nu
— Kimberly (@SouthernKeeks) October 12, 2020
Feminists are angry and resentful because they thought they had to get abortions to succeed in a man's world, but now ACB comes along and proves that having kids doesn't have to hold you back. She's far more successful than they'll ever be, in every way. https://t.co/6XHLhprtYA pic.twitter.com/RAqKsFXWoG
— I did not and will not vote for him. Calm down. (@jtLOL) October 12, 2020
You’re gonna get a lot of crap for this, but I just want you to know:
You deserve all of it and more.
— Alex Oakley (@AOakley19) October 12, 2020
Mothers, if you’re looking for a role model for your daughters, you can’t do much better than Amy Coney Barrett.
But you can do a hell of a lot better than Slate and Jill Filipovic.
this is repulsive
— florida man, ACB stan ? (@2rick2morty) October 12, 2020
The political and cultural left, including and in many cases especially as channeled through our media institutions, are unwell. https://t.co/puN7fece06
— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) October 12, 2020
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