Why Amy Coney Barrett could be a powerful heir to Antonin Scalia
O HEAR U.S. SUPREME COURT NOMINEE AMY CONEY Barrett tell it, she is the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s intellectual heir. “His judicial philosophy is mine too,” Barrett said at her nomination ceremony at the White House on Sept. 26. In important ways, that’s true. Barrett, who clerked for Scalia, practices both originalism, which interprets the Constitution according to what adherents claim was
