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发布时间：2025-09-11 14:56:29 来源：都市天下脉观察 作者：综合

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Trace Gallagher: Justice Amy Coney Barrett laid out her argument with ‘ration and reason’

'Common Sense' Department: Opt-out policies for Montgomery County, Maryland made it to the Supreme Court today and Justice Amy Coney Barrett laid out her argument clear as day.

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett described her struggle to reconcile personal beliefs with her duty to uphold the Constitution in an excerpt from her upcoming book "Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution," featured in The Free Press on Wednesday.

Barrett, who was appointed by President Donald Trump in October 2020 to succeed the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, recalled the internal struggle she faced while presiding over one of her first cases on the Court.

Shortly after her appointment, Barrett and her colleagues considered a death sentence for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. The U.S. Court of Appeals had vacated Tsarnaev's sentence, but the Justice Department argued the decision was an error.

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Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett poses during a group photo of the Justices at the Supreme Court in Washington, April 23, 2021. (Erin Schaff/Pool via Reuters)

"For me, death penalty cases drive home the collision between the law and my personal beliefs. Long before I was a judge—before I was even a member of the bar—I co-authored an academic article expressing a moral objection to capital punishment," she recalled. "Because prisoners sentenced to death almost always challenge their sentences on appeal, the tension between my beliefs and the law is not one that I could avoid as a young law clerk, much less now as a judge."

Although she personally objects to capital punishment, Barrett sided with the government and ruled in favor of reinstating Tsarnaev's death sentence.

She noted that this was not the only option available to her. Given her view on capital punishment, she could have "looked for ways to slant the law in favor of defendants facing the death penalty." Nobody would have ever known whether she did so because she felt Tsarnaev had a stronger argument, or because she allowed her morals to creep into her decision-making.

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"But that would have been a dereliction of duty. The people who adopted the Constitution didn’t share my view of the death penalty, and neither do all my fellow citizens today," she wrote.

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President Donald Trump and Justice Amy Coney Barrett stand on the Blue Room Balcony after Justice Clarence Thomas administered the constitutional oath on the South Lawn of the White House, Oct. 26, 2020.  (Patrick Semansky/AP Photo)
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