Summary

Justice Amy Coney Barrett sided with the Supreme Court’s three liberal justices to co-sign key parts of Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s blistering dissent in a 5-4 ruling allowing Trump to resume deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members.

The four female justices warned the deportations could ā€œhave life or death consequencesā€ for detainees sent to El Salvador’s CECOT mega-prison without judicial review.

Right-wing figures erupted, branding Barrett a ā€œDEI hireā€ and ā€œdisgraceful.ā€

Influencers like Mike Cernovich and Charlie Kirk accused her of betraying conservative values despite past praise.

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    In March, she and Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s three liberal justices in holding that Elon Musk’s nebulous cost-cutting initiative DOGE could not unilaterally freeze $2 billion in congressionally approved aid for work that had already been completed.

    ā€œShe is evil, chosen solely because she checked identity politics boxes,ā€ Cernovich wrote. ā€œAnother DEI hire. It always ends badly.ā€

    Notably, Roberts was not accused of being a turncoat—just Coney Barrett.

    Hmmmm wonder why. Man, she did her job and got roe v wade overturned, and they’ll still outright call her ā€œevil.ā€

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      Another DEI hire.

      They will not be satisfied until the only people allowed to earn a living or have any power are straight white cis men. It’s becoming blatantly obvious they don’t give a shit about ā€œmeritā€. Woman/minority/LGBT = DEI no matter how they got there. They could have every qualification in the world and it wouldn’t be enough to avoid the DEI label.

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        Wrong. This is fascism, there must always be another enemy. Cis white men will eventually become the ā€œwrong kindā€ of cis white men. They will one day be labeled ā€œimpureā€, and find themselves under the barrel

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          Yep. If they somehow were left with only cis white men, they’d redefine cis, white, or man to divide the remaining people.