Amy Coney Barrett Nomination: Why the Federalist Society and Other Institutions Matter

Presuming that Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed to the Supreme Court, Donald Trump will very likely head into reelection having nominated and seated three justices to the Supreme Court. He will have transformed the federal judiciary on all levels for a generation. The inexplicable Bostock decision of Justice Neil Gorsuch notwithstanding, Trump will have fulfilled his 2016 campaign promise to appoint originalist justices.

Also by the end of his first term, Donald Trump will have completely withdrawn U.S. troops from zero of the countries to which the Obama administration had deployed them. He will have failed even to pull them out of Syria, though he has repeatedly promised an end to America’s role in a confusing civil war there. His promise to end endless wars is put off.

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Michael Brendan Dougherty is a senior writer at National Review Online.

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Presuming that Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed to the Supreme Court, Donald Trump will very likely head into reelection having nominated and seated three justices to the Supreme Court. He will have transformed the federal judiciary on all levels for a generation. The inexplicable Bostock decision of Justice Neil Gorsuch notwithstanding, Trump will have fulfilled his 2016 campaign promise to appoint originalist justices.

Also by the end of his first term, Donald Trump will have completely withdrawn U.S. troops from zero of the countries to which the Obama administration had deployed them. He will have failed even to pull them out of Syria, though he has repeatedly promised an end to America’s role in a confusing civil war there. His promise to end endless wars is put off.