Justice Amy Coney Barrett Sides with SCOTUS Liberals to Ensure Trump is a 'Convicted Felon'

"Amy Coney Barrett was a disaster waiting to happen—and now it happened."

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Donald Trump’s emergency petition to delay Judge Juan Merchan’s criminal sentencing of the President-elect on Friday morning.\

"The application for stay presented to Justice Sotomayor and by her referred to the Court is denied for, inter alia, the following reasons. First, the alleged evidentiary violations at President-Elect Trump’s state-court trial can be addressed in the ordinary course on appeal," the order stated.

"Second, the burden that sentencing will impose on the President-Elect’s responsibilities is relatively insubstantial in light of the trial court’s stated intent to impose a sentence of unconditional discharge' after a brief virtual hearing," the court ruled.

The SCOTUS order noted that "Justice Thomas, Justice Alito, Justice Gorsuch, and Justice Kavanaugh would grant the application." Justice Amy Coney Barrett sided with the liberal justices to deny Donald Trump an appeal to the highest court, as well as Chief Justice Roberts.

As Hans Mancke noted: “Amy Coney Barrett was a disaster waiting to happen—and now it happened.”

It is telling that CNN believed that Justice Barrett might be the “last best hope for Supreme Court liberals.”

Here is what CNN had to say about Barrett:

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett stands apart.

She is the only former full-time law professor on the right wing. And she differs from her five fellow conservatives for the obvious reason that she is the sole woman in their bloc, a mother of seven who peppers her hypotheticals with references to ambitious babysitters and delivered meal kits.

But perhaps most important for the court amid today’s polarization, she is the only one of the conservatives who never served in the top echelons of a Republican administration. She is less likely to echo the GOP political agenda in her questions during oral arguments or reasoning in her written decisions. Her views of executive power, as in Donald Trump’s immunity case last July, are tempered.

And that is why Barrett has become the best hope for what remains of the liberal wing, particularly after Trump’s election victory.

Liberals on and off the bench see Barrett as someone who may provide some equilibrium to a court remaking the law in America, possibly able with her legalistic ways to secure a cross-ideological majority for moderation.

As Trump returns to the White House, the Supreme Court may be even more positioned to check the balance of powers.

Thanks to Barrett’s defection, it appears the Supreme Court will stand idly by as Judge Juan Merchan sentences Donald Trump over felony offenses that many legal analysts consider to be a sham.