{"id":6682,"date":"2022-02-08T16:38:24","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T21:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=6682"},"modified":"2022-02-08T16:38:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T21:38:48","slug":"core-alumna-hollis-brusky-on-justice-barrett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2022\/02\/08\/core-alumna-hollis-brusky-on-justice-barrett\/","title":{"rendered":"Core Alumna Hollis-Brusky on Justice Barrett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>The astute scholarly work of our alumna Amanda Hollis-Brusky was quoted in this new New Yorker piece about Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and the Christian legal movement. An excerpt from the article that pertains to Hollis-Brusky is quoted below and linked is the New Yorker article and Hollis-Brusky&#8217;s most recent book, &#8220;Ideas With Consequences,&#8221; which discusses the American Federalist Society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Amanda Hollis-Brusky, a political scientist at Pomona College who has written two books on the conservative legal movement, told me that the views underpinning common-good constitutionalism are quite prominent at Blackstone, adding, The tensions between natural-law originalists and libertarian originalists are already present in the Federalist Society, and Barrett sits at the crossroads of both of these factions. Moreover, as a conservative Catholic, Barrett has been steeped in natural-law teachingsamong them, that contraception and same-sex relations are unnatural and therefore immoral&#8221; (New Yorker).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2022\/02\/14\/amy-coney-barretts-long-game\">https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2022\/02\/14\/amy-coney-barretts-long-game<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/books\/ideas-with-consequences-the-federalist-society-and-the-conservative-counterrevolution\/9780190933746\">https:\/\/bookshop.org\/books\/ideas-with-consequences-the-federalist-society-and-the-conservative-counterrevolution\/9780190933746<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The astute scholarly work of our alumna Amanda Hollis-Brusky was quoted in this new New Yorker piece about Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and the Christian legal movement. An excerpt from the article that pertains to Hollis-Brusky is quoted below and linked is the New Yorker article and Hollis-Brusky&#8217;s most recent book, &#8220;Ideas With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,477,2671,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6683,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6682\/revisions\/6683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}