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Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett described her struggle to reconcile personal beliefs with her duty to uphold the Constitution in an excerpt from her upcoming book "Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution," featured in The Free Press on Wednesday.
Barrett, who was appointed by President Donald Trump in October 2020 to succeed the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, recalled the internal struggle she faced while presiding over one of her first cases on the Court.
Shortly after her appointment, Barrett and her colleagues considered a death sentence for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. The U.S. Court of Appeals had vacated Tsarnaev's sentence, but the Justice Depa