- Protesters inside a Minneapolis auditorium late Monday briefly interrupted a talk by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett at the University of Minnesota as a small group of attendees protested the high court's 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade.
- Fifteen minutes into the Robert A. Stein '61 Lecture, several protesters in the first of three upper decks of the Northrop auditorium unfurled a banner and chanted, "Not the court, not the state, women must decide their fate," a reference to the 2022 Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe.
- When asked about the court's doing more overturning of precedent of late, Justice Barrett said she had to "quibble" with that characterization, and suggested that from a numbers point of view, the high court has done less overturning of precedent in the past few years than it has historically done. She said the court historically overturns precedent two to three times a session, but that number more recently has hovered around once per session.
- The high court issued 58 opinions in 2022, a low number compared to numbers from prior years.
- On oral argument, she said such argument matters, and has swayed her decision in the past.
- "I think it's a myth that oral argument doesn't change minds," Justice Barrett said. "Oral argument can change my mind. It has changed my mind. … Oral argument is important. It can affect the scope of the opinion."
The NYT's article is Justice Barrett Calls for Supreme Court to Adopt an Ethics Code -- In a wide-ranging interview at the University of Minnesota that was disrupted temporarily by demonstrators, the justice said that ethics rules would help with greater public transparency.
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