Amy Coney Barrett
US Supreme Court justice since 2020
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| November 2023 | Barrett voted with the 6-3 majority to decline hearing an appeal against Washington's ban on conversion therapy for minors, allowing the law to stand. |
| June 2022 | Voted with the Supreme Court majority in Dobbs v. Jackson to completely overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, fundamentally altering abortion rights in the United States. |
| January 2022 | Barrett voted in a Supreme Court case involving capital punishment in Alabama, joining Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan in a dissenting 5-4 vote against allowing an inmate's execution to proceed. |
| November 2021 | Barrett voted with the majority in a 6-3 decision to reject an appeal from a Roman Catholic hospital seeking to deny a hysterectomy to a transgender patient, effectively leaving the lower court ruling in favor of the patient intact. |
| September 2021 | Joined the Supreme Court majority in a 5-4 vote to reject a petition blocking a Texas law banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, alongside Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh. |
| August 12 2021 | Barrett rejected a legal challenge to Indiana University's COVID-19 vaccine mandate, which was the first legal test of vaccine mandates to reach the Supreme Court of the United States. |
| June 2021 | Barrett joined a unanimous Supreme Court decision in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, ruling in favor of a Catholic social service agency that was denied funding for not adopting to same-sex couples, while declining to overturn the Employment Division v. Smith precedent. |
| June 2021 | Barrett was among six justices who rejected an appeal from a Washington State florist who had been ruled to have violated non-discrimination laws by refusing to sell floral arrangements to a same-sex couple. |
| March 4 2021 | Barrett writes her first majority opinion in United States Fish and Wildlife Service v. Sierra Club, which was a divided court decision, diverging from the tradition of unanimous first opinions by some previous justices. |
| February 5 2021 | Delivered her first concurring opinion in the case South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom, marking a significant milestone in her early Supreme Court tenure. |
| 2020 | Democratic senators Chuck Schumer, Jeff Merkley, Bob Casey Jr., Richard Blumenthal, and Mazie Hirono announced they would not meet with Amy Coney Barrett during her Supreme Court nomination process, with Schumer calling the nomination process 'illegitimate'. |
| December 2020 | President Trump pardoned Rickey Kanter, the plaintiff in the Second Amendment case where Barrett had previously written a notable dissent. |
| November 2020 | Amy Coney Barrett was assigned to the Seventh Circuit of the U.S. Supreme Court, with responsibilities including responding to emergency applications from the circuit's jurisdiction. |
| November 26 2020 | Barrett joined the Supreme Court majority in Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo, voting in a 5-4 preliminary injunction against COVID-19 restrictions on religious gatherings. The decision argued that the restrictions likely violated the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment by singling out houses of worship for harsh treatment. |
| November 3 2020 | Presidential election date, which some senators like Susan Collins argued should precede any Supreme Court nomination decision. |
| October 28 2020 | Barrett took the judicial oath administered by Chief Justice John Roberts, completing her official appointment to the Supreme Court. |
| October 27 2020 | Amy Coney Barrett became the 103rd associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, with Justice Clarence Thomas administering her first oath of office at a White House ceremony hosted by President Trump. |
| October 26 2020 | Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court by a Senate vote of 52-48, becoming the first justice since 1870 confirmed without a single vote from the Senate minority party. |
| October 25 2020 | The Senate voted mostly along party lines to end debate on Barrett's confirmation. |
| October 25 2020 | Cloture was invoked on Barrett's Supreme Court nomination by a vote of 51-48, with Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins voting against the motion. Floor debate began and continued overnight. |
| October 24 2020 | Lisa Murkowski announces she will vote to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, despite previously opposing holding a vote. |
| October 23 2020 | Senate conducted procedural votes on Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination, including a 53-43 vote to proceed to legislative session and a 51-46 vote to proceed to executive session. Senator McConnell filed a cloture motion to end debate. |
| October 22 2020 | The Judiciary Committee reported Barrett's confirmation favorably with a 12-0 vote, with Democrats boycotting the committee meeting. |
| October 21 2020 | The Morning Consult/Politico poll indicated Barrett's support had increased to 51% among registered voters, with 28% opposed. |
| October 19 2020 | McConnell stated that all Republican Senators needed to be back and healthy to ensure a quorum for Barrett's confirmation vote. |
| October 14 2020 | The Morning Consult/Politico poll showed Barrett's support had grown to 48% among registered voters. |
| October 12 2020 | Barrett's Supreme Court confirmation hearing began and lasted four days. |
| October 5 2020 | Senator Lindsey Graham formally scheduled Barrett's Supreme Court confirmation hearing. |
| October 3 2020 | Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced a two-week pause on floor votes due to a coronavirus outbreak affecting government officials, including President Trump and several Republican senators. |
| October 2 2020 | A Morning Consult/Politico poll found 46% plurality support for confirming Judge Barrett as a Supreme Court Justice. |
| October 1 2020 | Concludes meetings with Republican senators as part of her Supreme Court nomination process. |
| September 2020 | Barrett joined an opinion upholding the denial of a preliminary injunction against Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker's COVID-19 orders, supporting pandemic-related restrictions. |
| September 2020 | A Fox News poll showed 52% of likely voters trusted Biden to nominate the next Supreme Court justice, compared to 45% trusting Trump's choice. |
| September 29 2020 | Amy Coney Barrett meets with Republican senators, beginning a series of meetings from September 29 to October 1, 2020 regarding her Supreme Court nomination. |
| September 26 2020 | Nominated by President Donald Trump to succeed Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court of the United States. |
| September 22 2020 | Mitt Romney of Utah states he supports holding a vote on Trump's Supreme Court nominee, without committing to vote for the nominee. |
| September 21 2020 | Lindsey Graham claims Republicans have the votes to confirm Barrett in committee and on the Senate floor, with 51 Republican senators supporting giving her a hearing. |
| September 21 2020 | Trump narrows his Supreme Court nominee list to five candidates, with a final nomination planned for September 24 or 25. |
| September 20 2020 | An Ipsos poll for Reuters revealed 62% of respondents believed the Supreme Court vacancy should not be filled until after the election. |
| September 20 2020 | Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski reiterate their opposition to holding a Supreme Court nomination vote close to the election, but do not rule out voting to confirm during the lame-duck session. |
| September 19 2020 | At a rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, President Trump announces he will nominate a woman to the Supreme Court. |
| September 19 2020 | Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer held a conference call with the Senate Democratic Caucus, stating that 'nothing was off the table' in response to potential Republican efforts to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death. |
| September 18 2020 | Following the death of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Barrett emerged as the front-runner to succeed her on the Supreme Court. |
| September 15 2020 | A Marquette Law School poll found 67% of respondents believed the Senate should hold confirmation hearings in 2020 for any vacancy. |
| August 2020 | Barrett wrote a unanimous panel opinion ruling that a Teamsters local lacked standing to appeal an order in the Shakman case because they were not formally a party to the case. |
| June 2020 | Barrett wrote a 40-page dissent against the majority's decision to uphold a preliminary injunction on the Trump administration's 'public charge rule' regarding green card standards, arguing that the rule fell within the Executive's discretionary powers. |
| 2019 | Barrett voted to rehear a challenge to Indiana's parental notification law, with the Supreme Court later ordering a rehearing in July 2020. |
| 2019 | Barrett wrote a unanimous three-judge panel opinion in the Smith v. Illinois Department of Transportation case, addressing a racial discrimination claim. She acknowledged the use of a racial slur as egregious but concluded that the employee's dismissal was based on poor performance. |
| June 2019 | Barrett wrote a unanimous panel opinion addressing the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, determining that a debtor cannot create a cause of action without suffering an injury-in-fact, which created a circuit split. |
| June 2019 | As a judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Barrett wrote a unanimous decision reinstating a lawsuit by a Purdue University male student who claimed sex discrimination in a sexual assault disciplinary proceeding. The court found the university potentially violated the student's due process rights and Title IX by allegedly showing bias against him. |
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