Justice Barrett

 The final vote in the Senate was 52 to 48.

Of course, it was an excellent moment for America. She's an originalist and no amount of infantile attempts to deceive the public as to what that means puts a dent in what it actually means. A judge looks at the plain text of the Constitution to see what it has to say about a matter before the court. In cases where those on a panel of judges are coming to different conclusions about what the text is saying, a judge is to refer to what the intent of the text's author was. 

It maintains the Constitution's status as the bedrock of our entire legal system. Some kind of "living" Constitution would turn our very national foundation into mud. 

As to this argument that the Framers could not have foreseen the impact of urbanization and the advancement of technology on American life, it does not change a thing about the fundamental premise of the supreme law of the land: keeping government's reach to a bare minimum so as to maximize liberty within the context of a safe and orderly society. 

Amy Coney Barrett is a devout Christian, a devoted wife and mother, and, by all accounts, a generous, caring and loyal friend.

She is decent and principled, two traits of which this society is screamingly in need.

Regardless of what happens from here, how the election turns out, what kinds of chaos the losing side unleashes, how the pandemic continues to play out, how identity politics poisons everything about our culture, we can be sure that matters coming before the highest court in the land will be scrutinized according to the greatest legal document ever conceived by humankind.