U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett will share stories of her career and her thoughts on the law in a new book.
Sentinel will publish Barrett’s Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution in the fall, the press announced in a news release. It calls the book “a glimpse of her journey to the Court and an account of her approach to the Constitution.”
Barrett, a graduate of Notre Dame Law School, clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia before returning to the school as a faculty member in 2002. She served as a U.S. circuit judge before being appointed to the Supreme Court by President Donald Trump in 2020.
Barrett is considered one of the six conservative Supreme Court justices but recently drew the ire of some on the right for her vote to disallow Trump’s bid to freeze almost $2 billion in aid to other countries.
In her book, Sentinel says, Barrett “illuminates her role and daily life as a justice, touching on everything from her deliberation process to dealing with media scrutiny. With the warmth and clarity that made her a popular law professor, she brings to life the making of the Constitution and lays out her approach to interpreting its text, inviting readers to wrestle with questions of originalism and to embrace the rich heritage of the Constitution.”
Listening to the Law is slated for publication on Sept. 9.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
