Amy Coney Barrett: podcast appearances and interviews

Amy Vivian Coney Barrett is an American lawyer and jurist serving as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2020. She was nominated by President Donald Trump to succeed Ruth Bader Ginsburg and was confirmed by the United States Senate with a vote of 52–48. Barrett is the fifth woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Prior to her appointment to the Supreme Court, she served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 2017 to 2020. Barrett graduated from Rhodes College and earned her Juris Doctor degree from Notre Dame Law School, where she ranked first in her class. She clerked for Judge Laurence Silberman and Justice Antonin Scalia. She joined the faculty at Notre Dame Law School in 2002 and became a professor in 2010, while continuing to teach courses such as civil procedure, constitutional law, and statutory interpretation. Described as a protégée of Justice Scalia, she advocates for textualism in statutory interpretation and originalism in constitutional interpretation. Although generally considered part of the Court's conservative bloc, she has shown a pattern of independence and moderation, occasionally acting as a swing vote. Barrett has stated that she does not view herself as a swing vote or solely a conservative but as an originalist. She authored her first book, Listening to the Law, published in September 2025.