Justice Amy Coney Barrett defends overturning Roe v. Wade, reveals Supreme Court dynamics in memoir

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett in a brand new memoir defends her vote reversing a half century of nationwide abortion rights, declaring that Roe v. Wade usurped the desire of the American individuals and “came at a cost.”

“(T)he Court’s role is to respect the choices that the people have agreed upon, not to tell them what they should agree to,” Barrett writes in “Listening to the Law,” set to be printed on September 9.

CNN obtained entry to Barrett’s memoir, through which the justice additionally takes on non secular bias and particulars her decision-making course of, revealing that her chambers as soon as celebrated with champagne when different justices joined a “particularly tricky” opinion of hers.

Barrett, President Donald Trump’s third appointee to the excessive court docket, has emerged as an important justice on the nine-member bench, shaping the contours of oral arguments and infrequently offering a key vote for the choice in a case.

Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown communicate with CNN chief Supreme Court analyst Joan Biskupic. #CNN #News