The conservative Supreme Court justice Trump can't rely on

Amy Coney Barrett shows signs of independence that could constrain the new administration

(White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)

On September 26, 2020, then-President Donald Trump walked out to the Rose Garden to announce his choice to replace Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who had died eight days earlier.

Accompanying him was Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a former Notre Dame law professor whom Trump had appointed to the Seventh Circuit Co…