Andy Pearlman: How Jackson is approaching her, seems to be a years long plan to go "hey, here are some interesting historical documents you might want to look at if you want to be originalist..." And Barrett looks as if she has the intellectual curiosity to at least do that.

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How Jackson is approaching her, seems to be a years long plan to go "hey, here are some interesting historical documents you might want to look at if you want to be originalist..." And Barrett looks as if she has the intellectual curiosity to at least do that.

I'm too cynical to give her that much credit. I suspect she's more influenced by Roberts, as in "I want to agree with you, don't make me look like a fool for doing so." She wants respectable fascism and ironclad rulings, not sloppy decisions readily overturned by virtue of being ignorant.

I'm by no means arguing she's going to flip to liberal. More that it is possible she ends up the most moderate of the current 6 RW'ers on SCOTUS. Which would basically recreate the Kennedy in the middle court.

I don’t know moderate, she’s not going to split differences, but she at least seems to take her job seriously, to be a jurist. Fingers crossed, I guess.

Most moderate doesn't necessarily equal moderate. The most moderate fire and brimstone preacher is still a fire and brimstone preacher.

Yeah moderate is not the word but my impression from oral arguments is that Barrett (maybe more than anyone on the Court?) asks questions with the intention of eliciting information and listening to the answers.

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