How Amy Coney Barrett Is Confounding the Right and the Left
To many Americans, the conservative supermajority can look like a unified front reshaping the law through blunt force. Internally, the coalition is more fractured — six people debating how quickly to move, how far to go and whether public perception matters.
Justice Barrett has favored a more deliberate approach than some of her colleagues. In classroom lectures, she used to say that the country had bound itself to the Constitution the way Odysseus had tied himself to the mast of his ship, to resist whatever political sirens swam up.