Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett hit the road to promote her new book and hosts of MSNBC’s The Weekend are having an absolute field day with it.
“I think that Amy Coney Barrett’s little book tour has shown that she’s not ready for prime time at all,” network regular and Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern said Saturday. “She has had a number of flops that show she is not camera-ready. She’s really struggled to connect with the public, to translate legalese into anything that normal people can understand.”
Barrett, who was nominated by President Donald Trump to replace progressive Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2020, sparked controversy even before assuming her post due to her “textualist” approach to the Constitution. She interpreted the document’s contents based on its origina