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Justice Barrett faces conservative ire, sexist attacks after birthright citizenship ruling

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Justice Amy Coney Barrett is facing fierce backlash from conservative lawmakers and pundits after voting to uphold birthright citizenship, serving a severe blow to a core pillar of President Trump's immigration agenda.

Barrett joined Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Brett Kavanaugh and the court's three liberal justices in striking down Trump's Day 1 executive order restricting birthright citizenship — but she's taken the brunt of the conservative outrage in the ruling's aftermath.

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