New top story from Time: Not Just Another Conservative Vote: How Amy Coney Barrett Could Influence the Supreme Court

To hear Judge Amy Coney Barrett tell it, she is the intellectual heir to the late Justice Antonin Scalia. “His judicial philosophy is mine, too,” Barrett said at her nomination ceremony at the White House Rose Garden on Sept. 26. In important ways, that is true. Like Scalia, Barrett practices originalism, which interprets the Constitution […]