However when Barrett grew to become Trump’s third appointee in late 2020, giving the conservatives a six-vote majority, the longer-serving justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have been “emboldened by the ascendant conservatism,” Biskupic writes. “Joined by the Trump appointees, they echoed the previous president’s sense of aggrievement on tradition struggle points, from abortion rights to vaccine mandates. Their time had come.” (A lot as with Trump voters, “grievance” is the compulsory reference…
