All About Amy

This is a small thing in context of everything else about this week’s farce before the Senate judiciary committee, but for essentially personal reasons I still find it especially galling:

“I never imagined that I would find myself in this position,” she said in the Rose Garden—a lie as brazen, in context, as Kavanaugh’s claim to have been the product of unprecedentedly rigorous presidential vetting. In fact, Trump had long ago hailed her as a Supreme Court justice in waiting, because she’s a dedicated right-wing judicial politician who’s been angling for the job for years. She’s a member of the Federalist Society, loyal to the band of wealthy and publicly anonymous donors who put millions of dollars of ads and campaign donations behind McConnell’s blockade of Merrick Garland.

Somebody with Barrett’s resume has done nothing for the past 20+ years but spend every single day fantasizing about being on the Supreme Court, because that’s what people like her do. The basic guide for a standard model legal academic’s teaching methods and writing projects is to pretty much play let’s pretend I’m on the Supreme Court; for a bright young Federalist Society star that fantasy gets cranked up to 11.

But of course if she were the kind of person who told the truth about things like this she would never get anywhere near to where she is now, so I guess Paris is worth a mass, or something.