CONSERVATIVE VOICES
- Leonard Leo: “Judge Barrett will be a great role model for future generations seeking to ensure that the rule of law advances the dignity of all people.”
- Carrie Severino, president of the Judicial Crisis Network: Judge Barrett has “remarkable intellect, character, and devotion to the Constitution.”
- Ed Whelan, president of Ethics and Public Policy Center: “[S]he’s an extraordinary person and has an extraordinary legal mind.”
- Laura Ingraham: “She’d be a phenomenal SCOTUS Justice.”
- Mark Levin: Judge Barrett is a “solid constitutionalist.”
- Newt Gingrich: “Judge Amy Coney Barrett would make an outstanding Supreme Court Justice. Her clarity and intellectual strength in the Senate hearings for her current judgeship showed an intellect and a depth of thought that would be powerful on the Supreme Court.”
- Marjorie Dannenfleser, president of Susan B. Anthony List: “She is the perfect combination of brilliant jurist and a woman who brings the argument to the court that is potentially the contrary to the views of the sitting women justices.”
- Eagle Forum: “She is precisely the kind of role model our daughters need . . . . As a former clerk for the late Justice Antonin Scalia and a fundamental Constitutionalist, Judge Coney Barrett will ensure that our nation’s freedoms will be upheld.”
- Tony Perkins, president of Family Research Council: Judge Barrett “will adhere to the rule of law, and fairly and neutrally decide the cases before her. The president is doing his job nominating sound judges who will do their job and not engage in activism.”
- Tim Wildmon, president of American Family Association; Terry Schilling, executive director of American Principles Project; & Phillip L. Jauregui, president of Judicial Action Group: “She has consistently held to the constitutionally essential view that judges should never legislate their personal views from the bench.”
- Catherine Glenn Foster, president and CEO of Americans United for Life: Judge Barrett is a “committed constitutionalist.”
- Jennifer C. Braceras & Erin Hawley, Independent Women’s Forum: Judge “Barrett is . . . firmly committed to originalism and textualism—twin tenets of interpretation that constrain the ability of judges to impose their own moral values.”
- Mona Charen: Judge Barrett is an “eminently qualified, brilliant Supreme Court candidate.”
- Ramesh Ponnuru: Judge Barrett’s “educational history—she went to Rhodes College and Notre Dame Law School—would add a little welcome diversity to a Supreme Court full of Yale and Harvard alumni.
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders, former White House Press Secretary: “a working mom with impeccable legal credentials.”
SENATORS
- John Cornyn: “Judge Amy Coney Barrett is a legal trailblazer w/respect for the law & our nation’s founding principles. Throughout her career, she has maintained the importance of an independent judiciary that interprets the law & Constitution as-written, operating free from political pressure.”
- Mike Lee: “She’s got a proven track record. She’s someone who understands the difference between judging and lawmaking. She understands that she’s there to interpret the law based on what the words say rather than on the basis of what some social scientist or lawyer might wish that it said. That’s exactly the kind of person we need on the Supreme Court, and I think it will and should be her.”
- Todd Young: “Amy Coney Barrett is a faithful constitutionalist . . . who will represent Hoosier values. Proud to support her nomination for the 7th Circuit.”
HOUSE MEMBERS
- Mike Johnson: “As I reminded President Trump most recently over the weekend, Amy should be considered a “female Scalia,” and the natural inheritor of his extraordinary legacy on the Court. She clerked for him, studied constitutional law under him, and is cut out of the same mold. She is exactly what the president promised when he vowed to appoint ‘justices like Antonin Scalia.’”
- Andy Biggs, Jim Banks, Peter King, Jackie Walorski, and Steve King: “We are confident that Judge Barrett, if nominated and confirmed to the Supreme Court, will respect and defend the original text of the U.S. Constitution, as intended by America’s founding fathers,” the letter, obtained by Fox News, added. “Her presence and critical vote on our nation’s highest court will help restore the balance of the separation of powers between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches.”
ACADEMIA
- Carter Snead, a longtime family friend and Notre Dame law professor: “There’s just consensus: Amy Barrett, is the best student, the smartest and most talented person to ever come through the University of Notre Dame Law School.”
- Richard W. Garnett, professor of law and concurrent professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame: Judge “Barrett is careful, conscientious, civil, and charitable, and blessed with an unusual combination of decency, grace under pressure, kindness, rigor, and judgment. If nominated and confirmed, she would be an outstanding justice, committed to the rule of law and to the faithful performance of her judicial duty. . . . [S]he is a respected scholar, an award-winning teacher, a razor-sharp lawyer, a disciplined and diligent jurist, and a person of the highest character. And, if she were nominated and confirmed, she would be not just an excellent, but a great, Justice.”
- Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence & Director, James Madison Program, Princeton University: Judge Barrett is “super smart” and “guided by the constitutional text, its logic, structure, and original public meaning.”
- Jonathan H. Adler, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University: “Her conservatism is embedded in her methodological and jurisprudential commitments, not any commitment to a particular policy outcome. As a scholar and a judge, she has shown herself to be a very careful and deliberate thinker who is concerned with getting the right answer, whether or not it’s the popular answer.”
- Noah Feldman, professor at Harvard Law School and former clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter: “I disagree with much of her judicial philosophy and expect to disagree with many, maybe even most of her future votes and opinions. Yet despite this disagreement, I know her to be a brilliant and conscientious lawyer who will analyze and decide cases in good faith, applying the jurisprudential principles to which she is committed. Those are the basic criteria for being a good justice. Barrett meets and exceeds them.”