OPINION
Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation is a triumph for women
By Carrie Severino
October 26, 2020 | 10:05pm
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Monday night, Judge Amy Coney Barrett became Justice Amy Coney Barrett. It was a triumph on many levels. It was a triumph for a judiciary that we rely on to protect our system of representative democracy. It was a triumph for those who recognize the importance of upholding the Constitution as written, not sidestepping it or contorting it into a vehicle for unelected judges to legislate from the bench.
And it was a triumph for conservative women, who for many years have been marginalized in much of our political culture.
Of course, there was a time within living memory that women altogether were denied opportunities that are taken for granted today. Despite graduating third in her class at Stanford Law School, Sandra Day O’Connor notably had a difficult time beginning her legal career. Law firms made no offer to her other than as a legal secretary, so she became a deputy county attorney, initially offering to work for no salary and sharing space with a secretary.
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It is the capacity to do that that counts most — and Barrett earned repeated praise for displaying such ability as well as any Supreme Court nominee those Judiciary Committee members had ever seen. Chairman Lindsey Graham noted during the hearings this opportunity to “punch through” not “a glass ceiling, but a reinforced concrete barrier around conservative women.”
On the day Judge Barrett’s nomination was voted out of committee, Graham summed it up: “It’s moments like this where you can tell young conservative women there’s a place at the table for you.”
Carrie Campbell Severino is president of the Judicial Crisis Network.
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