{"id":2596282,"date":"2026-04-28T16:47:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/by-exploiting-her-kids-wapo-sinks-to-new-low-in-latest-bullying-campaign-against-justice-barrett\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T16:51:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:51:41","slug":"by-exploiting-her-kids-wapo-sinks-to-new-low-in-latest-bullying-campaign-against-justice-barrett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/by-exploiting-her-kids-wapo-sinks-to-new-low-in-latest-bullying-campaign-against-justice-barrett\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo Sinks To New Low In Bullying Campaign Against Barrett"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fby-exploiting-her-kids-wapo-sinks-to-new-low-in-latest-bullying-campaign-against-justice-barrett%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2596282&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The piece argues that a Washington post reporter, Julian Mark, crossed from reporting into political activism by supposedly using Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett\u2019s adopted Haitian children to pressure her on an upcoming asylum-related case. It claims mark framed the court\u2019s consideration of *Trump v.Miot* and *Noem v.Doe* over the end of Temporary Protected Status for Haitian and Syrian migrants by suggesting Barrett\u2019s \u201clived experience\u201d could influence her ruling, despite acknowledging that her children\u2019s adoption process is legally unrelated to TPS. The author portrays this tactic as an attempt to undermine Barrett\u2019s credibility and to \u201cbully\u201d conservative Justices toward outcomes the left wants, while claiming Barrett herself has stressed that judges must <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/la-times-owners-daughter-says-journalists-should-call-israel-apartheid-state\/\" title=\"LA Times owner&#039;s daughter advocates labeling Israel as an &#039;apartheid&#039; state.\">separate personal beliefs<\/a> from decision-making.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It\u2019s not uncommon for America\u2019s propaganda media to deploy personal attacks against their political opponents to achieve their desired outcome. But what is extraordinary \u2014 and particularly vile \u2014 is these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zelenskyy-blames-west-for-ukraines-failure-to-start-counteroffensive\/\" title=\"Zelenskyy faults West for Ukraine&#039;s counteroffensive delay.\">bad actors exploiting<\/a> their opponents\u2019 children to do so. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what happened on Tuesday when Washington Post reporter Julian Mark clearly attempted to use Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett\u2019s kids to bully her into ruling against the Trump administration in an upcoming immigration case.<\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/28\/supreme-court-justices-personal-ties-haiti-highlight-stakes-asylum-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> titled, \u201cA Supreme Court justice\u2019s personal ties to Haiti highlight stakes in asylum case,\u201d Mark noted the high court\u2019s plans to hold oral arguments this week in consolidated cases <em>Trump v. Miot<\/em> and <em>Noem v. Doe<\/em>, which <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/30\/the-federalists-guide-to-the-2025-supreme-court-term\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">center<\/a> around President Trump\u2019s revocation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Syrian and Haitian migrants residing in the United States. The justices agreed to hear the cases after several activist judges blocked the president\u2019s actions \u2014 despite SCOTUS <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/03\/10\/year-into-trump-2-0-judicial-insurrectionists-reign-supreme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pausing<\/a><strong> <\/strong>similar lower court injunctions.<\/p>\n<p>Where Mark\u2019s \u201creporting\u201d crosses into outright left-wing activism is when he dragged Barrett\u2019s two adopted children \u2014 both of whom are from Haiti \u2014 into the mix.<\/p>\n<p>After noting the \u201cviolence and natural disasters\u201d that have plagued Haiti and the origins of Barrett\u2019s adopted kids, the Post lackey obviously tried to spin up a \u201ccontroversy\u201d where there is none. He suggested that, because Barrett adopted two of her seven children from Haiti, her \u201clived experience\u201d will become a factor in how she handles the TPS issue.<\/p>\n<p>Per usual, Mark deployed the media\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/08\/watch-norah-odonnells-justice-barrett-interview-to-understand-how-the-media-lie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">long-used tactic<\/a> of citing \u201cexperts\u201d and \u201cscholars\u201d to push such a narrative. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow Barrett will join her fellow justices in deciding whether the Trump administration can remove temporary immigration protections for 353,000 Haitian migrants, all given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gayle-king-confronts-jen-psaki-on-bidens-plan-to-justify-very-bad-behavior-in-afghanistan-french-submarine-deal\/\" title=\"Gayle King Confronts Jen Psaki On Biden...s Plan To Justify \u2018Very Bad Behavior... In Afghanistan, French Submarine Deal\">temporary status<\/a> because of the earthquake and its aftermath,\u201d Mark wrote. \u201cIt can be risky to predict a justice\u2019s views of a case based on their life experiences. But some legal scholars argue that the role of justices\u2019 lived experience is often given too little weight by court watchers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re wondering what evidence there is to support the Post\u2019s narrative, you won\u2019t find it in Mark\u2019s article. Unlike the Supreme Court\u2019s Democrat appointees, who have <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/04\/18\/explosive-report-as-dobbs-majority-faced-death-threats-liberal-justices-slow-walked-release\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">clearly allowed<\/a> their personal views to guide their actions on the bench, Barrett has been emphatic that judges must separate their own views from their judicial work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy office doesn\u2019t entitle me to align the legal system with my moral or policy views,\u201d Barrett wrote in her book <em>Listening to the Law<\/em>. \u201cSwearing to apply the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >law faithfully means deciding<\/a> each case based on my best judgment about what the law <em>is<\/em>. If I decide a case based on my judgment about what the law <em>should be<\/em>, I\u2019m cheating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In case it wasn\u2019t already obvious, Mark\u2019s article isn\u2019t about providing good-faith \u201creporting\u201d on the TPS matter before SCOTUS. It\u2019s about attacking Barrett and using her adopted children as a cudgel to bully the justice into giving the left the outcome it wants in <em>Trump v. Miot<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>We know this is true because Mark himself all but admits as much. <\/p>\n<p>Several paragraphs into his piece, the Post writer openly admits that the way in which Barrett\u2019s adopted children arrived in the United States isn\u2019t even remotely related to the TPS issue at play in <em>Trump v. Miot<\/em>. While recognizing that the justice\u2019s kids are U.S. citizens and the Haitian TPS holders are not, he noted that \u201c[t]here are major differences in how Barrett\u2019s children and the Haitian migrants covered by TPS entered the United States, and <em>the laws governing international adoptions and TPS do not intersect<\/em>\u201d (emphasis added).<\/p>\n<p>Once again using the media\u2019s \u201cBut the experts say!\u201d trope, Mark added, \u201cBut Barrett\u2019s adoption of children from Haiti could play into how she approaches the case, according to academics who have studied Supreme Court justice behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are only two reasons any legacy media \u201creporter\u201d would feel the urge to tie Barrett\u2019s adoption of Haitian-born children \u2014 a process which the Post acknowledges has no ties to the TPS issue \u2014 to the <em>Trump v. Miot<\/em> case. And neither of them is good.<\/p>\n<p>The first is that, like its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-thinks-scotus-upholding-the-constitution-is-a-bad-thing\/\" title=\"WaPo Thinks SCOTUS Upholding The Constitution Is A Bad Thing\">fellow media propagandists<\/a>, the Post wants to undermine Barrett\u2019s credibility in the eyes of the public. As the outlet paints it, by virtue of simply being the mother of two adopted kids from Haiti, she\u2019s incapable of putting her personal views aside to execute her duties as a fair judge on matters involving Haitian migrants.<\/p>\n<p>The second \u2014 and most obvious \u2014 is that the Post is leveraging Barrett\u2019s \u201clived experience\u201d to pressure her into ruling in favor of thousands of foreign nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Corporate media hacks have never been shy about trying to use their <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/10\/02\/americans-trust-in-corporate-media-hits-lowest-level-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">waning influence<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/05\/john-roberts-invites-leftist-bullying-campaigns-against-scotus-by-playing-politics-on-the-bench\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bully<\/a> the court\u2019s conservative justices into ruling on cases in ways they find favorable. Mark and Co.\u2019s hatchet job against Barrett is the latest example of that.<\/p>\n<p>The Post has shown that it has no problem participating in this media-wide effort to attack and vilify the Supreme Court\u2019s conservative majority. And now, it\u2019s demonstrated just how low it\u2019s willing to go to do so \u2014 even if it means dragging a justice\u2019s kids into the fray.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He is a co-recipient of the 2025 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism. His work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics and RealClearHealth. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not uncommon for propaganda outlets to attack opponents-but exploiting their children to bully a ruling is especially vile<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":2596283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Amy-Coney-Barrett.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[23413,50841,78754,32293],"class_list":["post-2596282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-barrett","tag-bullying-2","tag-political-attack-ads","tag-washington-post"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Amy-Coney-Barrett.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2596282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2596286,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596282\/revisions\/2596286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2596283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2596282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2596282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2596282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}