WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett told a conservative gathering that the best way to fight the kind of “poisonous hostility” that led to conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s murder is to “show grace and strength in the face of hatred.”
“Fighting poison with poison doesn’t work,” Barrett said at the Federalist Society’s annual black tie gala on Nov. 6. “It leads to more poison.”
Barrett and Justice Brett Kavanaugh were the keynote speakers at the influential conservative legal organization’s dinner where they fielded questions from a moderator, including some that had been submitted by students.
Although conservatives have a supermajority on the Supreme Court and control the other two branches of governments, the questions focused not on their successes but on how to deal with feeling under siege.
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