Feminists Should Be Celebrating Amy Coney Barrett

Judge Amy Coney Barrett is everything feminists say they admire. She’s a brilliant and accomplished lawyer and judge. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame Law School at the top of her class. She clerked not only for the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit but also for the Supreme Court, for Justice Antonin Scalia. And now she’s a nominee to the Supreme Court herself.

Meanwhile, Judge Barrett has been married to her husband Jesse for 18 years and is the mother of seven children. Two of her...