Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
I wouldn’t characterize his appointment of her as being a DEI hire. She’s so well credentialed, she’s so demonstrably conservative in her outlook on the role of the courts, that I just think that kind of mischaracterizes it.
— Leonard Leo, co-chairman of the Federalist Society, in comments given to The Gavel, on the far-right’s 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 “evil.”
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