U.S. Supreme Court,
Constitutional Law
Oct. 13, 2020
What difference will Amy Coney Barrett make?
Judge Amy Coney Barrett is 48 years old. If she is confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court and remains on the court until she is 87 years old, the age at which her predecessor Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on September 18, Barrett will be a justice until the year 2059.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
Judge Amy Coney Barrett is 48 years old. If she is confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court and remains on the court until she is 87 years old, the age at which her predecessor Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on September 18, Barrett will be a justice until the year 2059.
Sometimes one has to guess as to a nominee's ideology. Not in the case of Barrett; her law review articles, her speeches, and her judicial ...
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