⁍ Amy Barrett has consistently sided with police or prison guards accused of using excessive force.

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⁍ She has written opinions or been a part of three-judge panels that have ruled in favor of defendants in 11 of 12 cases.

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⁍ The Republican-controlled Senate is expected to vote to confirm Barrett to the lifetime position on Monday, cementing a 6-3 conservative majority.

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– The Senate is expected to vote Monday on President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, and it’s a safe bet that Amy Barrett will be confirmed. The Chicago-based 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals judge was appointed by Trump in 2017, and she has been a part of three-judge panels that have ruled in favor of defendants in 11 of 12 cases in which law enforcement was accused of using excessive force in violation of the Constitution, per a Reuters review of cases she has written or been a part of. Critics of Barrett, who would be the court’s first black justice, say her record shows “she is predisposed to side with law enforcement in the context of excessive force cases.” The president of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law tells Reuters that Barrett’s “record also makes clear she is predisposed to side with law enforcement in the context of excessive force cases.” But Jay Schweikert of the libertarian Cato Institute tells Reuters that “her decisions all look like reasonable applications of existing precedent.” Barrett dissented from a 7th Circuit panel decision in 2019 to revive a lawsuit against prison guards at an Illinois prison for firing warning shots over a dining hall to help break up a fight, injuring several inmates. She has also handled requests for qualified immunity outside of the excessive force context. Barrett last year threw out a lawsuit by three Black men who sued Chicago cops for pulling them over while investigating a drive-by shooting near a school. They said they were targeted because they were black, citing the “racialized nature of the mockery and threats” made by one of the officers.