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Justice Barrett Gives First Interview Since ‘Mistaken’ Birthplace Citizenship Ruling

While saying she has ‘thoughts’ on the subject, Barrett declined to provide her views on Democrat efforts to impose term limits on SCOTUS.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Justice Amy Coney Barrett gave her first public interview on Thursday since signing onto the Supreme Court’s Trump v. Barbara decision. That “mistake[n]” ruling, as Justice Samuel Alito called it, codified so-called “birthplace citizenship” into the U.S. Constitution.

The junior justice appeared for a sit-down discussion with University of Virginia Law School Professor John Jeffries Jr. to talk about her recently released book Listening to the Law. The literary work provides insight into the inner workings of the Supreme Court, such as the opinion-writing process and how justices go about interpreting the law.

“I wanted to teach both lawyers and law students and non-lawyers about the court,” Barrett said. “Many friends, including professors in other departments at Notre Dame when I was teaching, asked me questions about the court. Everybody was very curious, and it was the same kinds of questions that you [Jeffires] and I would take for granted — just because of our long experience in the law — that people just didn’t understand how the court functioned.”

One of these core functions raised by Jeffries is the Supreme Court’s emergency or interim docket, which deals with cases still undergoing litigation in the lower courts. The Trump administration has been forced to seek relief at the docket due to the overreaching antics of rogue judges and their willingness to greenlight leftists’ lawfare against the government.

Acknowledging the change in the docket’s activity,........

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