Overview

• CNN obtained excerpts in which Justice Amy Coney Barrett calls Roe v. Wade an "exercise of raw judicial power" and argues abortion rights were not deeply rooted in American history.
• She writes that Roe "usurped the will of the American people," asserting the Court’s role is to respect choices made through the political process.
• The memoir discusses the Court’s emergency docket, noting frequent wins for the Trump administration on rapid applications while emphasizing the value of full briefing and argument.
• Barrett describes opinion-writing and coalition-building, including a champagne toast in her chambers after colleagues quickly joined a particularly tricky opinion.
• She says she wrote to explain how the Court operates while withholding confidential deliberations and family details, and she addresses faith-and-law tensions by citing her vote to reinstate Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence despite personal reservations about capital punishment.