; Whereas a recent Reuters Politics headline about Judge Amy Coney Barrett read: Handmaid’s Tale? U.S. Supreme Court candidate’s religious community under scrutiny. ; Whereas a Newsweek exposé on a religious group that Judge Amy Coney Barrett belongs to was forced to print a correction because the headline of the article falsely stated that this group inspired The Handmaid’s Tale ; Whereas since Judge Amy Coney Barrett became a leading contender to fill the recently vacated seat on the Supreme Court, her family has come under increased attacks; Whereas a recent tweet from Ibram X. Kendi, a professor and author, attacked Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s decision to adopt two international children, reading, Some White colonizers adopted Black children. They civilized these savage children in the superior ways of White people, while using them as props in their lifelong pictures of denial, while cutting the biological parents of these children out of the picture of humanity. ; Whereas John Lee Brougher, a director of a political action committee, tweeted, As an adoptee, I need to know more about the circumstances of how Amy Coney Barrett came to adopt her children, and the treatment of them since. Transracial adoption is fraught with trauma and potential for harm, and everything I see here is deeply concerning. ; Whereas Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a historian, tweeted, … many authoritarians seized children of color for adoption by White Christians. Pinochets’s regime did this with indigenous kids and Nazis took Aryan looking Poles for German families. Trump takes migrant kids for adoption by Evangelicals. ; Whereas Vanessa Grigoriadis, a podcast cofounder, tweeted, I guess one of the things I don’t understand about Amy Comey Barrett is how a potential Supreme Court justice can also be a loving, present mom to seven kids? Is this like the Kardashians stuffing nannies in the closet and pretending they’ve drawn their own baths for their kids