Continuing the Conversation with Justice Barrett

In the first half of my conversation with Justice Amy Coney Barrett about her new book, Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and the Constitution, we covered topics including originalism and its critics on the right, the Court’s emergency docket, the history of the Court, and gratitude for the Constitution. In the second half, the transcript of which follows, we talked about writing opinions, oral advocacy, amicus briefs, judicial independence, the experience the justices bring to the Court, the pandemic, security threats in an age of political violence, and what she’d ask her former boss if he was still with us.

NR: If President Trump, or some other future president, called you up and said, not going to ask you names, just some advice about what kind of people I should be putting on the Court?

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Dan McLaughlin

Dan McLaughlin is a senior writer at National Review Online and a fellow at National Review Institute.

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In the first half of my conversation with Justice Amy Coney Barrett about her new book, Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and the Constitution, we covered topics including originalism and its critics on the right, the Court’s emergency docket, the history of the Court, and gratitude for the Constitution. In the second half, the transcript of which follows, we talked about writing opinions, oral advocacy, amicus briefs, judicial independence, the experience the justices bring to the Court, the pandemic, security threats in an age of political violence, and what she’d ask her former boss if he was still with us.

NR: If President Trump, or some other future president, called you up and said, not going to ask you names, just some advice about what kind of people I should be putting on the Court?