Add The New York Post on Google Conservative podcaster and journalist Megyn Kelly torched Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney-Barrett, branding her as a backstabbing traitor for siding with liberal peers and protecting mail-in voting in Mississippi.
“Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump appointee, she’s supposed to be one of ours,” Kelly fumed on her program, “The Megyn Kelly Show.”
“Why do ours — Why are they always so wiggly?”
The Megyn Kelly Show The high court on Monday upheld a Mississippi law allowing mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted up to five days after the polls close.
“The Framers recognized the difficulty of crafting election laws ‘applicable to every probable change in the situation of the country,’” Barrett wrote in the majority opinion. “So instead of constitutionalizing election law, they decided that ‘a discretionary power over election’ needed to be lodged ‘somewhere.’”
“Suffice it to say, that power was not lodged in this Court. The election-day statutes say nothing about ballot receipt, and we cannot add to the words Congress chose.”
Her dissent in the case, Watson v. Republican National Committee, caused massive backlash from MAGA conservatives, who view her as increasingly untrustworthy.
Kelly offered congratulations to “the libs,” referring to Supreme Court justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Kentaji Brown Jackson.
“I have to admire their commitment to their side,” she said.
“They never abandon their side,” she continued. “We were supposed to have 6-3 conservatives to libs and today, we only had four conservatives.”
“That’s how we lost, because Roberts and Barrett jumped over to the liberal side, and Barrett even wrote the court’s majority opinion.”
Getty Images Kelly blasted Chief Justice John Roberts as dysfunctional, claiming he is not fulfilling his obligations as an “institutionalist meant to protect the Supreme Court.”
“That’s not your job,” she said. “That’s not your job in the actual decision-making.”
After the decision and her show Kelly went on a social media diatribe further blasting SCOTUS and Barrett.
“Barrett. AGAIN. WTF” she wrote in a post on X.
Kelly was not the only conservative to tear into Barrett for her flip-flopping.
Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt called the decision, “a shockingly wrong opinion,” in an X post.
“Justice Barrett joins with the liberal justices to hold that federal election law does not preempt states who allow late mail-in ballots to be counted.”
“Remember Election Day?” Republican Rep. Abe Hamadeh’s office said on X.
“This disastrous SCOTUS decision, authored by Justice Barrett, guarantees we’ll keep drifting away from it — as our sacred elections get bogged down by endless mail-in ballots and never-ending counts.”
