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Well, well, well, look who turned out exactly like we warned, worse actually. The new data is in, and it’s official: Justice Amy Coney Barrett is not just a disappointment; she’s a straight-up backstabber to the movement and the man who put her on the Supreme Court bench in record time.
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The data is out and it looks like MAGA was right about Justice Amy Coney Barrett
She’s a backstabber to the people who appointed her
The records show her agreeing with liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan 82% of the time during her 2nd term, up from 39% in her 1st
She’s also the conservative ‘least likely to support Trump’ in cases that involve the president himself
What an ungrateful, Ivory Tower weakling
The data is out and it looks like MAGA was right about Justice Amy Coney Barrett
She’s a backstabber to the people who appointed her
The records show her agreeing with liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan 82% of the time during her 2nd term, up from 39% in her 1st… pic.twitter.com/W6ErUTGr3R
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) June 17, 2025
The truth is, this betrayal has been brewing for a while, and Revolver was one of the outlets saying it out loud when it mattered. This is our article from 5 years ago, pointing out how much better Judge Bridget Shelton Bade would be for the America First Movement.
Fox News isn’t even including Judge Bridget Shelton Bade’s photograph in their frequent on-air lineups of the supposed frontrunners to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. That’s a terrible oversight, because Judge Bade is not only in the running and rapidly amassing support, she is the best choice President Trump could make.
This pick is about more than simply getting one of the many strong options from President Trump’s shortlist on the Court. There is, notably, a powerful current of conservative enthusiasm behind Judge Amy Coney Barrett. As we’ve written here at Revolver, Judge Barrett is an extraordinary woman and exemplary conservative jurist. She would make a great Supreme Court Justice, but she is simply not the ideal nominee for this political moment. Amy Coney Barrett may appear to promise the shock we all know the system deserves, but her nomination risks reframing the precarious Trump reelection effort from a winning battle over law and order, immigration, and left-wing political violence to a messy and poorly timed slog through well-worn battles that would be better and more effectively fought after Trump wins re-election.
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Here’s the kicker: Judge Bade is not a compromise choice. She’s not some softie “establishment GOP type” liable to go the way of David Souter or John Paul Stevens after a few trips to opera at the Kennedy Center. While extraordinarily well qualified — cum laude from Arizona State Law, clerk for eminent Reagan-appointed Judge Edith Jones of the Fifth Circuit, DOJ Honors during Bill Barr’s first stint as Attorney General, and elected member of the prestigious American Law Institute — she’s no ivory tower academic. Bade is not another “conservative legal movement” darling, haunting the pages of law reviews with elegant solutions to novel questions of administrative law. She’s not even a member of the Federalist Society.
What Judge Bade is is nothing but the genuine article: a no-nonsense, read-it-how-its-written, law and order jurist in the proudest tradition of the old Southwest, and in the very same spirit of President Trump’s America First campaign.
You don’t have to take our word for it. Bade’s solidness is written indelibly in her record from the earliest days of her career.
One would expect a former federal prosecutor in Arizona to be tough on criminals, and Bade is. In her short time on the Ninth Circuit, she wrote a strong opinion refusing to expand the already out-of-control Miranda Rights doctrine and dissented from a decision that left in place restrictions on searching for child pornography at border crossings.
You’re worried about the Second Amendment? Don’t be. Bade cut her teeth in the chambers of the Honorable Edith Jones, a gun rights stalwart who was finding federal full-auto bans unconstitutional when District of Columbia v. Heller wasn’t even a twinkle in Justice Scalia’s eye. It also bears mentioning that, while she’s never ruled in an abortion case, there is nothing in Bade’s record that would suggest she’s soft on life issues.
It is on immigration, the defining issue of the Trump era, that Bade truly sets herself out from the pack. When she was still an assistant United States attorney, Bade won a commendation from the U.S. Border Patrol after she successfully defended them from two massive lawsuits from illegal border crossers who crashed their cars while trying to escape pursuing agents.
In her year and half as an appellate judge, she’s outdone not only herself, but virtually everyone on the federal bench, and she’s done it in the most liberal circuit in the country. On three separate occasions, Bade’s lone dissent has stood for enforcing immigration laws as written and refused to go along with her colleagues on the Ninth Circuit as they caved to the open borders lawfare designed to undermine them. In Vo v. Barr, Bade would have forbidden failed asylum seekers from appealing their orders of removal with claims of sexual abuse they didn’t even mention before they lost their cases in the immigration courts. In Gonzalez v. ICE, Judge Bade sought to stop the ACLU and other open borders groups from attacking ICE’s database for issuing “detainer” orders to keep illegal aliens arrested for other crimes in jail until they can be taken into ICE custody.
Bade was rock solid: no-nonsense, law and order, tough on crime, tough on borders, and no flouncy law school pontificating. She had a proven record of standing firm, even on the wildly liberal Ninth Circuit, when the open borders lobby came banging on the door.
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But the GOP brainiacs, always thirsty for a historic moment, glowing headlines, and toeing the establishment line, went with the media-friendly Notre Dame law professor with seven kids and a stack of DEI credits to her name. And now, how’s that working out for us? Not so good.
According to a fresh breakdown, Barrett has aligned with liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan a jaw-dropping 82 percent of the time during her second term, more than double her first term rate of 39 percent.
They cite her agreeing with liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, specifically, 82 percent of the time during her second term, up from 39 percent in her first.
Her central role includes writing her rulings separately from the other justices more frequently.
Not only has she aligned ‘more frequently with liberal majorities,’ she is the Republican ‘least likely to support Trump’ in cases that involve the president himself.
She has voted with liberal majorities 91 percent of the time while voting with conservative majorities just 84 percent of the time, though given the 6-3 conservative bend of the court, there are more conservative than liberal victories.
Mike Davis, a Trump ally and conservative legal activist, is greatly disappointed in Barrett.
‘We had too much hope for her. She doesn’t have enough courage,’ said Davis, who was criticized by phone earlier this year by conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch for Davis’ comments about Barrett on Steve Bannon’s podcast.
Davis called Barrett ‘scared of her own shadow.’
‘She is a rattled law professor with her head up her a**,’ Davis, a former clerk to Gorsuch, told Bannon.
He also blasted her as ‘weak and timid’ to NBC News.
Right-wing influencer Eric Daugherty attacked the justice in a series of tweets as an ‘anti-Trump judge’ and a ‘big problem.’
‘Barrett deceived people into thinking she was a reliable constitutionalist. The power has gone to her head. It happens with frightening regularity the last half century,’ posted conservative radio host Mark Levin.
Megyn Kelly went off on her on her podcast as ‘a little squishy.’
‘As a female who leans right, I’m kind of sick of like, the female conservatives who get appointed to the Supreme Court, Sandra Day O’Connor, now Amy Coney Barrett, like being too squishy,’ she ranted.
‘Get somebody with some rhetorical balls who will hold as fiercely to conservative principles in the judiciary as the left wing does,’ she added.
The data doesn’t lie. Amy Coney Barrett turned out to be exactly what we feared and worse: a spineless, ivory tower backstabber who melts under pressure. Meanwhile, the judge we actually needed—Bridget Bade—got brushed aside for an establishment judge cooked up by the so-called smart elites at the Federalist Society.
Maybe next time, the DC geniuses should listen to the base that keeps getting it right, because now we have the receipts to prove it.
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