Justice Barrett faces conservative ire, sexist attacks after birthright citizenship ruling

Justice Amy Coney Barrett is facing fierce backlash from conservative lawmakers and pundits after voting to uphold birthright citizenship, serving a severe blow to a core pillar of President Trump’s immigration agenda. 

Barrett joined Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Brett Kavanaugh and the court’s three liberal justices in striking down Trump’s Day 1 executive order restricting birthright citizenship — but she’s taken the brunt of the conservative outrage in the ruling’s aftermath.

Much of that criticism has been overtly sexist, while other attacks have carried more subtle gendered undertones, prompting some conservative legal figures to defend Barrett and urge critics to focus on her jurisprudence rather than her gender.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) responded to the ruling with a call to “impeach rogue, activist judges,” adding, “We’re looking at you Amy Coney Barrett.”

She then took aim at the female justices on the court, suggesting they’re misunderstanding the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause.

“The 14th Amendment was written for freed slaves. Not for birth tourism. The men who wrote it knew the difference. But apparently the female justices on the Supreme Court do not,” she wrote in a post on the social platform X.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) also appeared to mock Barrett’s vote, writing, “If a woman gives birth at the Supreme Court, is her baby entitled to automatic status as a justice?”

Far-right journalist and Trump ally Laura Loomer singled out Barrett for the court decision, writing on social media that by voting against the president’s birthright citizenship executive order she was “effectively sending our country to the grave.”

The College Republicans chapter of Barrett’s law school also laid blame for the ruling at her feet.

“Barrett is an absolute disgrace to the Notre Dame name. We apologize on her behalf to all who will suffer the devastating consequences of infinity third-world migration,” Notre Dame College Republicans wrote on X.

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