‘You are always going to disappoint one side’: Justice Coney Barrett talks SCOTUS during NM visit

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett spoke to an audience in Santa Fe, NM on March 8, 2026.

By: Julia Goldberg

Outlets: Source New Mexico

Published: March 9, 2026

Words: 1,672

Last Updated: 1 day ago

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United States Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett did not envision a career as a judge. Rather, the former law professor and mother of seven children, was “really more thinking about how to balance a career as a lawyer and being kind of a two-career family and having young children in the house as well,” she said Sunday afternoon during an event in Santa Fe.

Nonetheless, a judge she became, serving on the Seventh Circuit …

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