{"id":132439,"date":"2025-09-02T16:32:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T00:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/02\/amy-coney-barrett-forced-to-discuss-destroying-constitutional-precedent-during-family-trip\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T16:32:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T00:32:48","slug":"amy-coney-barrett-forced-to-discuss-destroying-constitutional-precedent-during-family-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/02\/amy-coney-barrett-forced-to-discuss-destroying-constitutional-precedent-during-family-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Coney Barrett Forced To Discuss Destroying Constitutional Precedent During Family Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Dobbs<\/em> did not top the list of things I wanted to talk about on vacation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Justice Amy Coney Barrett<\/a>, discussing the aftermath of the controversial Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization decision in her new memoir, \u201cListening to the Law\u201d<\/a> (affiliate link), set to be published on September 9. Barrett, who in the book defends the part she played<\/a> in overturning the right to abortion established by Roe v. Wade, recounts a time when her brother-in-law came to a family vacation with a copy of the Dobbs decision, saying he was following her instructions to \u201cread the opinion.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of 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

The post Amy Coney Barrett Forced To Discuss Destroying Constitutional Precedent During Family Trip<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

Dobbs<\/em> did not top the list of things I wanted to talk about on vacation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Justice Amy Coney Barrett<\/a>, discussing the aftermath of the controversial Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization decision in her new memoir, \u201cListening to the Law\u201d<\/a> (affiliate link), set to be published on September 9. Barrett, who in the book defends the part she played<\/a> in overturning the right to abortion established by Roe v. Wade, recounts a time when her brother-in-law came to a family vacation with a copy of the Dobbs decision, saying he was following her instructions to \u201cread the opinion.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Staci
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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of 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":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Dobbs did not top the list of things I wanted to talk about on vacation. \u2014 Justice Amy Coney Barrett, discussing the aftermath of the controversial Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization decision in her new memoir, \u201cListening to the Law\u201d (affiliate link), set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":132395,"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-132439","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\/09\/Staci-Zaretsky-pSHssz.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132439","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=132439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}