{"id":110319,"date":"2025-03-12T15:25:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T23:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/12\/federalist-society-leader-says-amy-coney-barrett-is-not-a-dei-hire\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T15:25:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T23:25:54","slug":"federalist-society-leader-says-amy-coney-barrett-is-not-a-dei-hire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/12\/federalist-society-leader-says-amy-coney-barrett-is-not-a-dei-hire\/","title":{"rendered":"Federalist Society Leader Says Amy Coney Barrett Is Not A \u2018DEI Hire\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t characterize his appointment of her as being a DEI hire. She\u2019s so well credentialed, she\u2019s so demonstrably conservative in her outlook on the role of the courts, that I just think that kind of mischaracterizes it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Leonard Leo<\/a>, co-chairman of the Federalist Society, in comments given to The Gavel<\/a>, on the far-right\u2019s recent objections to Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who ruled against the Trump administration when it tried to freeze foreign aid payments. Online commentators have gone so far as to refer to Barrett as being \u201cevil.\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t characterize his appointment of her as being a DEI hire. She\u2019s so well credentialed, she\u2019s so demonstrably conservative in her outlook on the role of the courts, that I just think that kind of mischaracterizes it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Leonard Leo<\/a>, co-chairman of the Federalist Society, in comments given to The Gavel<\/a>, on the far-right\u2019s recent objections to Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who ruled against the Trump administration when it tried to freeze foreign aid payments. Online commentators have gone so far as to refer to Barrett as being \u201cevil.\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Photo by Jonathan Ernst-Pool\/Getty Images) Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I wouldn\u2019t characterize his appointment of her as being a DEI hire. She\u2019s so well credentialed, she\u2019s so demonstrably conservative in her outlook on the role of the courts, that I just think that kind of mischaracterizes it. \u2014 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":110313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Staci-Zaretsky-TdfhNr.jpeg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}