With just one clause, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor has told us why the appointment and confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court was so important. In her dissent in Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v Cuomo,^[1]Page 29 Justice Sotomayor wrote:

I see no justification for the Court’s change of heart.

The justification is that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who had twice voted to deny the religious freedom rights of certain churches, in South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom and Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley v. Sisolak, was replaced by someone who supports the free exercise of religion, the First Amendment, and the Constitution of the United States.

Justice Sotomayor wrote in the typical Supreme Court vein, with a pretense that political choices aren’t part of the equation. They are, and everybody knows that they are, and it’s a very good thing that President trump was able to nominate and get Justice Barrett confirmed. The Democrats wanted to delay the nomination until after the election, hoping that Joe Biden would get to make the pick, and nominate someone with leftist opinions. Justice Barrett is a conservative, and exactly who we needed on the Supreme Court.