Amy Coney Barrett Helped Corporations Quash Discrimination Cases
Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee hasn’t been asked much about it in Senate confirmation hearings, but Amy Coney Barrett made a series of rulings against workers facing racial discrimination on the job.

Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett departs the US Capitol on October 21, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Stefani Reynolds / Getty Images)
As Donald Trump works to try to halt racial sensitivity training in America’s workplaces, he has pushed to appoint a Supreme Court justice who has periodically ruled against workers who claim that they have faced racial discrimination on the job.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination was announced four days after Trump issued an executive order barring federal contractors from any “workplace training that inculcates in its employees any form of race or sex stereotyping or any form of race or sex scapegoating.” The order claimed that materials asserting certain groups are “inherently sexist and racist are appearing in workplace diversity trainings across the country.”
During her Senate confirmation hearing, Barrett declined to say whether or not she believes systemic bigotry plagues America, though she did acknowledge “that racism exists in our country.” Barrett noted that her family has adopted two black children, and said that she and her children cried watching the graphic video of police killing George Floyd in Minnesota in May.