Brett Kavanaugh (as I said) was no surprise as a dissenter — in the razor wire barrier case, at the Supremes.

I was surprised by Barrett joining the Chief — and perhaps I should not have been. [Perhaps due to bias in favor of the state where I grew up, I thought better of Gorsuch. I shouldn’t have.]

It turns out that a fine UT Austin law prof has reminded me that Justice Barrett was also the deciding vote in favor of allowing Mr. Biden’s prosecution of “ghost gunner” kits… to take effect. Again, it was a Fifth Circuit imposition of an injunction, against clear federal statutory authority, as applied to the states — in both the gun- and razor- cases. And Barrett voted to strike both of those lawless injunctions.

The ghost guns were doubtlessly allowing crooks to use firearms to kill opponents with utterly untraceable weapons, assembled at home. The razor wire barrier was responsible for at least three drownings, in the past two weeks — and the laceration of dozens of young asylum seekers, as photographic evidence from CBP proved.

So, maybe Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett is not quite the Federalist shill I imagined her to be. My apologies. Let us see how she rules on Tangerine’s preposterous “absolute immunity” farce, due up for argument… very shortly. That will be the acid test. And a decision on it is likely before March 4, 2024. Stay tuned.

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