Let Amy Coney Barrett Be Amy Coney Barrett

On the supremely silly comments about the Court and its justices.

‘Amy Coney Barrett was a DEI appointee.” These days, political parody is next to impossible because politics is so absurd. Case in point: What I quoted was an X entry (whatever we call tweets now) from someone on the right side of the political spectrum. Barrett had just weighed in on the wrong side of a Supreme Court decision, according to this nonlawyer. That post was far from the only instance of social-media backlash that Barrett faced. This one just had the classlessness to use a photo of Barrett’s family — including her two adopted children from Haiti...