Amy Coney Barrett slammed as ‘Trump’s greatest mistake’ after infuriating grilling of top attorney

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is facing a new round of backlash from the pro-Trump right for fiercely grilling a Trump administration lawyer over birthright citizenship.

During oral arguments made Thursday, Barrett confronted U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer over the administration’s suggestion that it doesn’t follow certain lower court rulings.

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Amy Coney Barrett (ACB) is proving once again she may the the worst SCOTUS pick ever by a Republican.

She has a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court because of Donald Trump. Yet you can hear her disdain for the Trump administration. pic.twitter.com/elEl3UxzeK

— Cash Loren (@CashLorenShow) May 15, 2025

“Did I understand you correctly to tell Justice [Elena] Kagan that the government wanted to reserve its right to maybe not follow a Second Circuit precedent, say, in New York, because you might disagree with the opinion?” she began.

Sauer replied that the “general practice” is to “respect those precedents,” but added that “there are circumstances when it is not a categorical practice.”

Barrett, in turn, demanded to know if this “general practice” is something the Trump administration came up with or is a long-time practice.

Sauer claimed it’s the “long-standing practice of the Department of Justice.”

“Really!?” an incredulous Barrett then asked.

“We generally, as it was phrased to me, generally respect circuit precedent but not necessarily in every case and some examples might be a situation where we’re litigating to try to get that circuit precedent overruled and so forth,” Sauer responded.

Barrett snapped again, this time lecturing Sauer that she wasn’t talking about a “case from 1955 and you think it’s time to be challenged,” but about how the Trump administration proceeds when a court rules that one of its orders is unconstitutional.

Sauer responded by saying the court “generally” follows such rulings.

“So you’re still saying generally,” Barrett chided him. “And you still think that it’s generally the long-standing policy of the federal government to take that approach?”

“That is my understanding,” he said.

Barrett’s line of questioning, which aligned closely with liberal Justice Elena Kagan’s line of questioning, prompted heavy backlash on social media, with critics accusing her of being President Donald Trump’s “greatest mistake.”

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ACB is a a radical liberal and Trump’s greatest mistake.

— David (@Mr_NiceGuy_007) May 15, 2025

Absolutely one of Trump’s worse picks!! She is not on the side of protecting our beloved US Constitution!

— ✨B€A$TI€J€NKIN$✨ (@BeastieJenkins) May 15, 2025

Barrett has been a major disappointment. She was a plant by the Uniparty. Now you know why Sen. McConnell fast tracked her nomination and pushed for confirmation.

— Burt Rainey (@BurtRainey) May 16, 2025

Amy Coney Barrett continues to prove, as evidenced by today’s oral arguments regarding the injunction against President Trump’s executive order re: Birthright Citizenship & 14th Amendment, that she will forever haunt President Trump as the single greatest mistake of his political…

— Tim McClone (@themcclonebrot1) May 15, 2025

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— Donna Cowan (@doncow) May 16, 2025

This is the third or so time that Barrett has found herself in hot water.

Last month, she joined the high court’s three liberal justices in voicing opposition to President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport illegal alien gang members.

Thankfully, Chief Justice John Roberts joined the high court’s four other conservative justices in ruling 5-4 to allow Trump to keep the deportations going.

Another month earlier, Barrett voted with the court’s liberal justices, in addition to Roberts, to force the Trump administration to unfreeze payments to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

Yet despite her rulings, the Trump administration has chosen to essentially let her off the hook.

Case in point: During a White House briefing early last month, a correspondent for Lindell TV questioned press secretary Karoline Leavitt about whether the administration was “disappointed” in her.

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WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH THE FRAUDULENT JUSTICE AMY CONEY BARRETT?

Barrett sided with loony lib justices and Tren de Aragua gangs, after throwing J6 political hostages under the bus last year in another example of her despicable interpretation of the law (where she again sided with… pic.twitter.com/bXhkOon1t6

— Cara Castronuova (@CaraCastronuova) April 8, 2025

“Does the administration have a comment on her decision to go with the liberals? … Are they disappointed in Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett?” the correspondent asked.

Leavitt basically said naw.

“We’ve made our feelings very clear,” she began. “We believe this was a massive victory. Certainly, we wish this was a nine-to-nothing decision because we firmly believe that the president was well within his constitutional authority.”

“And the Supreme Court made that very clear last night, and they put Judge Boasberg in his place. We called on the Supreme Court to rein in these judges who are acting as judicial activists, not real arbiters of the truth and the law. And that’s exactly what we saw the Supreme Court do yesterday,” she added.

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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.

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