MAGA Republicans are now turning on their own judges (opens in new tab)

When President Donald Trump appointed Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2020, liberals and progressives attacked her as a hardcore social conservative ideologue who would move the Court far to the right. And Barrett, who considered the late Justice Antonin Scalia a major inspiration, was among the five GOP-appointed justices who, in 2022, voted to overturn Roe v. Wade after 49 years. Yet in 2026, Barrett often draws biting criticism from far-right MAGA Republicans — attac...