Trump Pick for Court Opens Dash to Vote

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Solidly Conservative For Barrett, Partisan Record on Rulings Battle Awaits

By ADAM LIPTAK By PETER BAKER WASHINGTON — Judge Amy and NICHOLAS FANDOS Coney Barrett, President Trump’s WASHINGTON — President pick for the Supreme Court, has Trump introduced Judge Amy Co- compiled an almost uniformly ney Barrett as his nominee to the conservative voting record in Supreme Court on Saturday, cases touching on abortion, gun presenting her as a champion of rights, discrimination and immi- conservative judicial principles gration. If she is confirmed, she and igniting a partisan and ideo- would move the court slightly but logical battle to confirm her before firmly to the right, making com- the election in just 38 days. promise less likely and putting at During an early evening cere- risk the right to abortion estab- mony in the Rose Garden with lished in Roe v. Wade. Judge Barrett at his side and her Judge Barrett’s judicial opin- husband and seven children in the ions, based on a substantial sam- audience, Mr. Trump said she ple of the hundreds of cases that would make decisions “based on she has considered in her three the text of the Constitution as years on the federal appeals court written” much as her mentor, Jus- in Chicago, are marked by care, tice Antonin Scalia, the icon of le- clarity and a commitment to the gal conservatives for whom she interpretive methods used by Jus- once clerked, had done. tice Antonin Scalia, the giant of “She is a woman of unparalleled conservative jurisprudence for achievement, towering intellect, whom she worked as a law clerk sterling credentials and unyield- from 1998 to 1999. ing loyalty to the Constitution,” But while Justice Scalia’s meth- Mr. Trump said, making his third ods occasionally drove him to lib- Supreme Court nomination in his eral results, notably in cases on nearly four years in office. At flag burning and the role of juries stake in her nomination is the fu- in criminal cases, Judge Barrett ture of gun rights, religious liberty

DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES could be a different sort of justice. and public safety, he added, as he Judge Amy Coney Barrett before President Trump announced her as his Supreme Court nominee on Saturday at the White House. “There may be fewer surprises pressed for historically rapid ac- from someone like her than there tion by the Senate. “This should be were from Justice Scalia,” said a straightforward and prompt Brian T. Fitzpatrick, a former law confirmation,” he said. clerk to the justice and a law pro- In her own remarks, Judge Bar- A Quiet Retreat Court Tilt Will Test Biden’s Appetite for Hardball fessor at Vanderbilt University. rett directly aligned herself with “She is sympathetic to Justice Justice Scalia, who died in 2016 probability,” Mr. Biden told the Supreme Court primed to coun- Scalia’s methods, but I don’t get and whose widow, Maureen From ‘Defund’ the sense that she is going to be a Scalia, was in the audience. “His This article is by Matt Flegen- crowd. teract his policy aims on health He was half right. care, abortion and other defining philosophical leader on how those judicial philosophy is mine, too — heimer, Alexander Burns and Katie methods should be executed.” a judge must apply the law as writ- In Minneapolis Nearly three decades later, the issues. Glueck. One area in which almost no one ten,” Judge Barrett said. “Judges man whom the Senate confirmed Many Democrats now believe Joseph R. Biden Jr. was trying expects surprises is abortion. Mr. are not policymakers, and they that year, Justice Clarence Thom- that adding seats to the court is By ASTEAD W. HERNDON to demonstrate the lasting power Trump has vowed to appoint jus- must be resolute in setting aside as, is still rendering decisions — the urgent remedy, an extraordi- tices ready to overrule Roe v. any policy views they might hold.” MINNEAPOLIS — Over three of the federal judiciary. So he did the eldest jurist, if President nary step that has not been seri- Wade, the 1973 decision that es- The president and Judge Bar- months ago, a majority of the Min- the math. Trump has his way, of a soon-to-be ously contemplated since the ad- tablished a constitutional right to rett herself emphasized her role neapolis City Council pledged to Addressing a Michigan law 6-to-3 conservative majority. ministration of Franklin D. Roose- abortion. Groups opposing abor- as a mother in an effort to human- defund the city’s Police Depart- school audience in April 1991, Mr. But Mr. Biden is indeed alive, velt. They argue that the court’s tion have championed Judge Bar- ize her in anticipation of attacks ment, making a powerful state- left to consider what the court’s legitimacy has already eroded rett’s nomination. And her aca- on her philosophy and her reli- ment that reverberated across the THE LONG RUN emerging tilt would mean for the amid the Republican confirmation demic and judicial writings have gious convictions. Mr. Trump country. It shook up Capitol Hill Democratic agenda if he wins the maneuvers of the last four years. been skeptical of broad interpre- noted that she would be “the first and the presidential race, shocked A Conflicted Combatant White House — and for his own at- Yet for Mr. Biden, a proud man tations of abortion rights. mother of school-aged children residents, delighted activists and tachment to the Capitol’s bygone of the Senate, such an effort would Judge Barrett will doubtless tell ever to serve on the U.S. Supreme changed the trajectory of efforts Biden, then a senator, said that if harmony and mores. amount to the sort of norm-razing senators that the Roe decision is a Court,” and Judge Barrett called to overhaul the police during a trends in life expectancy held, a exercise that might strike him as settled precedent, as she did when herself “a room parent, car pool crucial window of tumult and po- After a half-century in public justice freshly confirmed around an escalation too many. Mr. Trump nominated her to the driver and birthday party plan- litical opportunity. life, with a lead role in several in- that time would “be making land- “My inclination is to think that appeals court in 2017. And the Su- ner” who adopted two children Now some council members delible confirmation dramas he would just see that as making it preme Court may not hear a direct from Haiti and, like so many in re- would like a do-over. mark decisions in the year 2020.” through the years, Mr. Biden “I’ll be dead and gone, in all could, if elected, be saddled with a Continued on Page 20 challenge to Roe anytime soon, cent months, has had to learn the Councilor Andrew Johnson, one preferring instead to consider vicissitudes of online education. of the nine members who sup- cases that could chip away at She also sought to address “my ported the pledge in June, said in Continued on Page 17 Continued on Page 16 an interview that he meant the words “in spirit,” not by the letter. Another councilor, Phillipe Cun- ningham, said that the language HEIR APPARENT Conservatives hope Judge Amy Coney Barrett will in the pledge was “up for interpre- follow the path of Justice Antonin Scalia, her former mentor. PAGE 19 tation” and that even among council members soon after the prom- FRAMING THE DEBATE Wary of being seen as making personal attacks, ise was made, “it was very clear Democrats are objecting to the nominee on policy grounds. PAGE 27 that most of us had interpreted that language differently.” Lisa Bender, the council president, paused for 16 seconds when asked if the council’s statement had led China, in Vaccine Wager, Gives to uncertainty at a pivotal mo- ment for the city. “I think our pledge created con- Unproven Shots to Thousands fusion in the community and in our wards,” she said. The regrets formalize a retreat By SUI-LEE WEE that has quietly played out in Min- First, workers at state-owned vaccines outside the usual drug neapolis in the months since companies got dosed. Then gov- trial process to such a huge scale. George Floyd was killed by the po- ernment officials and vaccine The vaccine candidates are in lice and the ensuing national up- company staff. Up next: teachers, Phase 3 trials, or the late stages of roar over the treatment of Black supermarket employees and peo- testing, which are mostly being Americans by law enforcement ple traveling to risky areas conducted outside China. The peo- and the country at large. After a HILARY SWIFT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES abroad. ple in those trials are closely summer that challenged society’s The number of available single-family homes in Winhall and Stratton, Vt., dropped to 29 from 129. The world still lacks a proven tracked and monitored. It is not commitment to racial equality and coronavirus vaccine, but that has clear that China is taking those raised the prospect of sweeping not stopped Chinese officials from steps for everyone who is getting political change, a cool autumn re- trying to inoculate tens of thou- the shots within the country. ality is settling in. sands, if not hundreds of thou- The unproven vaccines could National polls show decreasing City Folks Flee the Virus, and the Bears Rejoice sands, of people outside the tradi- have harmful side effects. Ineffec- support for Black Lives Matter tional testing process. Three vac- tive vaccines could lead to a false of 769. He is a cranky dude. That is mont. Yes, the dump attendant, a since a sea change of good will in cine candidates are being injected sense of security and encourage June. In Minneapolis, the most By ELLEN BARRY his brand. heavily bearded man named Jody, into workers whom the govern- behavior that could lead to even far-reaching policy efforts meant At the entrance to his com- carries a firearm. And no, you can- ment considers essential, along more infections. WINHALL, Vt. — From his post to address police violence have all pound, above the sign that warns not mix your magazines with your with many others, including em- The wide use of vaccines also at the town dump, Scott Bushee but collapsed. his fellow residents that they can- cans and bottles. ployees of the pharmaceutical raises issues of consent, espe- In interviews this month, about spent the summer observing his not enter after 3:50 NO EXCEP- “Now you’ve got to deal with firms themselves. cially for employees of Chinese two dozen elected officials, pro- new neighbors, transplants who TION, he has affixed a demented- Vermonters,” he said. “They will Officials are laying out plans to vaccine makers and state-owned testers and community leaders pulled into his compound with looking baby doll, blank-eyed and tell you straight up. I try to do it as give shots to even more people, companies who might feel pres- described how the City Council heads full of rustic fantasy and li- with one hand replaced by a plas- politely as I can, but if you push citing emergency use, amounting sure to roll up their sleeves. The members’ pledge to “end policing cense plates from New York and tic fork. the envelope, things are going to to a big wager that the vaccines companies have asked people tak- as we know it” — a mantra to meet New Jersey. Despite this clear warning, this go sideways. I’m sure that they’re will eventually prove to be safe ing the vaccines to sign a nondis- the city’s pain — became a case Mr. Bushee is one of the half- summer’s population explosion looking at Jody and I and saying, and effective. closure agreement preventing study in how quickly political dozen or so people who run the has tried his last nerve, as he ex- ‘Oh my God, I’ve landed in Rus- China’s rush has bewildered them from talking about it to the winds can shift, and what happens town of Winhall, with a year- plained to one flatlander after an- sia.’” global experts. No other country news media. Continued on Page 24 round population, before Covid-19, other how things are done in Ver- Continued on Page 6 has injected people with unproven Continued on Page 8

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