Conservative podcaster Megyn Kelly lashed out at Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Tuesday after the Donald Trump-appointed judge sided against his administration and voted to uphold mail-in voting in Mississippi.
“Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump appointee, she’s supposed to be one of ours. Why do ours — Why are they always so wiggly?” Kelly said on her show. ”Honestly, like the libs, you can take it to the bank. [Elena] Kagan, [Sonia] Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson. I have to admire their commitment to their side. They never abandon their side.”
Barrett wrote for the 5-4 majority opinion, stating that “the federal election-day statutes do not preempt Mississippi’s law because the defining element of an ‘election’ has always been the electorate’s choice of candidate.”
Her decision on the matter, however, spurred outrage among the right, including from Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), who called the judge’s opinion “shockingly wrong,” and Rep. Abe Hamadeh (R-Ariz.), who called the decision “disastrous.”
Right-wing influencer Joey Mannarino also called Barrett “a gigantic fucking disaster of a Supreme Court appointment.”
“Absolutely horrible in the long run. She totally forgot who appointed her to the Court,” he told followers on X. “Scum of the earth.”
However, this would not be the first time Barrett’s decision triggered MAGA followers. Several Trump loyalists turned on her after she sided with liberal justices against the president’s use of the wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport Venezuelan migrants.
Kelly on Tuesday called Barrett “a turncoat,” a term used to reference someone’s disloyalty, bashing her for “constantly siding with the left.”
The conservative podcaster also took aim at Justice John Roberts, who Kelly said “is pursuing the wrong agenda as Chief Justice.”
“‘He’s an institutionalist meant to protect the Supreme Court,’” Kelly said mockingly. “That’s not your job. That’s not your job in the actual decision-making.”
“We were supposed to have 6-3 conservatives to libs,” Kelly said. “And today, we only had four conservatives. That’s how we lost, because Roberts and Barrett jumped over to the liberal side, and Barrett even wrote the court’s majority opinion.”