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Your legal career is but a means to an end, and... that end is building the kingdom of God.
— Amy Coney Barrett
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Amy Coney Barrett
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Amy Vivian Coney Barrett is an American lawyer and jurist serving since 2020 as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The fifth woman to serve on the court, she was nominated by President Donald Trump. She was a U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 2017 to 2020.
All Quotes by Amy Coney Barrett
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I tend to agree with those who say that a justice's duty is to the Constitution and that it is thus more legitimate for her to enforce her best understanding of the Constitution rather than a precedent she thinks is clearly in conflict with it.
— Amy Coney Barrett
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Your legal career is but a means to an end, and... that end is building the kingdom of God.
— Amy Coney Barrett
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Judges cannot - nor should they try to - align our legal system with the Church's moral teaching whenever the two diverge. They should, however, conform their own behavior to the Church's standard.
— Amy Coney Barrett
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It allows (indeed it requires) the recusal of judges whose convictions keep them from doing their job. This is a good solution.
— Amy Coney Barrett
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It's never appropriate for a judge to impose that judge's personal convictions - whether they derive from faith or anywhere else - on the law.
— Amy Coney Barrett