https://www.nysun.com/editorials/could-justice-barrett-and-the-court-surprise-us/91316/
The Senate’s confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett as a justice of the Supreme Court reminds us of President Trump’s decision to move our embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. The opponents, in their predictions of war and mayhem and riots on the Arab street, were almost Schumerian. In the event, though, what happened was the opposite. Mr. Trump’s sticking by his Jerusalem promise has ushered in a new burst of peace making.
Could that be what follows from his, and Senator McConnell’s, success in delivering the conservative majority he promised for the court? It would be imprudent to discount entirely the possibility that it will end in tears. It could also be imprudent, though, to rule out a more optimistic outcome — in which a conservative majority on the court enables us now to resolve some of the feuds that have festered for years.
It’s not just the Affordable Care Act, on which the Democrats directed so much of their fury over the course of Justice Barrett’s confirmation hearing. It’s not just the question of abortion, on which much of the country is still bitterly divided, though Roe is nearing 50 years. Nor the battle over the Second Amendment, which has divided our states. It is suddenly possible to imagine the court breaking all sorts of stalemates.
