President Obama was right, elections do have consequences.

By good luck, I stumbled across this quiet, reserved tour de force by a young lady whom I know not at all.  

Her entry is posted in Quora, a question-and-answer project co-founded by former Facebook employees Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever in June 2009. 

Here is the question posted on Quora:

Knowing that she is hand picked by Trump and if confirmed, would Barrett comply to the oath of her office to the people or to Trump and his administration personally?

Here is Ms Moy's post. 

Susann Moy
rare conservative on Quora

President Obama was right, elections do have consequences. So do major Senate rules changes done for expediency.

Every federal judge is appointed by a president. Contrary to the perpetual sky is falling narrative coming from Democrats over the past 4 years, it’s very likely that Justice Coney Barrett will be very measured in her rulings, as have been Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. Neither of them have been the most conservative Justices in the Supreme Court.

Last year, we wrote that Roberts would likely land at the ideological center of the court in Kennedy’s absence, and he did — but so did Kavanaugh, who voted in almost total lock-step with Roberts. In fact, Kavanaugh was actually slightly closer to the center than Roberts was, according to their Martin-Quinn scores, a prominent measure of judicial ideology calculated by scholars Lee Epstein and Andrew Martin of Washington University in St. Louis and Kevin Quinn of the University of Michigan using data from the Supreme Court Database. As the chart below shows, their scores were almost indistinguishable:



The Supreme Court Might Have Three Swing Justices Now

Barrett has been winning kudos like that for decades. Every living law clerk who worked at the Supreme Court during its 1998 term signed a letter in 2017 endorsing her appeals court nomination, including those who worked for liberal justices.

"Professor Barrett is a woman of remarkable intellect and character," the 34 former law clerks wrote. "Based on our observations, we came to respect Professor Barrett’s conscientious work ethic, her respect for the law, and her remarkable legal abilities."

That popularity has been evident as well at Notre Dame Law School, where Barrett, an alumni, has been named professor of the year three times since 2002.

"She's mind-blowingly intelligent, and she's also one of the most humble people you're going to meet," said professor Stephen Yelderman, a recent law clerk for Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch. "Judge Barrett is the complete package."

And it is palpable in her South Bend, Ind., community, where she juggles judging, teaching and, with her husband Jesse, raising seven children, including two adopted from Haiti and one with special needs.

“On a personal level, you’re amazing – to have seven children and do what you do," Feinstein marveled during Barrett's confirmation hearing in 2017.

That wasn't all she said.

In a dialogue that cemented Barrett's reputation among conservatives and defenders of religious freedom, Feinstein and other Democrats questioned whether the depth of Barrett's Catholic convictions might affect her rulings from the bench on issues such as abortion.

"If you're asking whether I take my faith seriously and I'm a faithful Catholic, I am," Barrett responded, "although I would stress that my personal church affiliation or my religious belief would not bear in the discharge of my duties as a judge."
Amy Coney Barrett: Talented judge, popular professor brings solid conservative credentials

Expect Justice Coney Barrett to serve as a conservative on the Supreme Court with integrity, intelligence, and humility. She won’t be beholden to Trump but will follow the Constitution, which is a lot more than a large number of our judges in the US these days.

As Obama said when President, “Elections have consequences, and I won”. At this moment in time there is a Republican in the White House and a Republican Senate majority.

For those who object, blame Obama and his Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, for removing the judicial appointments Senate filibuster.

He once called the “nuclear option” an “un-American” move that would destroy the Senate and “ruin our country.”

But on Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid did it anyway. He took the unprecedented step of gutting Senate filibuster rules for presidential nominees on a straight party-line vote, a high-stakes gambit that could have enormous implications for future presidents, reshape an institution he’s served in for 26 years, and ultimately define Reid’s legacy as one of the longest-serving Democratic leaders in history — one with a penchant for bare-knuckled tactics.

On the weekend of Nov. 9, Reid enlisted his top lieutenants, Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York and Dick Durbin of Illinois, to help take the caucus’ temperature.


Harry Reid's gambit