I Hate to Harsh Anyone’s Mellow, but Justice Amy Coney Barrett Is Not Some Kind of Hero © provide by deepak Kumar. Blogs R uth Marcus of The Washington Post , onetime scourge of teenage potty mouths —I kid! I kid!—is the latest smart person to go digging for the pony in the current carefully manufactured conservative majority on the Supreme Court. Marcus seems impressed by some mavericky impulses out of Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who, to be entirely fair, does not seem to be as much of a wild-eyed fanatic as Justice Sam Alito, as much of a conservative apparatchik as Justice Neil Gorsuch, as much of a vengeful sublet as Justice Clarence Thomas, as much of a lab-grown wingnut as Justice Brett Kavanaugh, or as much of a predictable irrelevance as Chief Justice John Roberts. That’s all of them, I think. Anyway, Marcus finds hope in Barrett's brief walk-on role as Not Insane Person in the dramas of the moment. Still, benchmarking Barrett against her conservative...
