'Supposed to be one of ours': Megyn Kelly blasts Justice Amy Coney Barrett for siding with liberals

WASHINGTON, DC: Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly blasted Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett after she wrote the majority opinion in a mail-in voting case, saying she was "supposed to be one of ours."

Her criticism reflected growing frustration among some on the right over the Supreme Court's 6-3 conservative majority. Kelley argued the latest ruling showed that expected ideological victories are not always materializing.

Megyn Kelly questions Justice Amy Coney Barrett's conservative record

On Monday, June 29, the Supreme Court upheld a Mississippi law allowing mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted for up to five days after polls close.

Barrett, a President Donald Trump appointee, authored the majority opinion.

"Justice Amy Coney Barrett, she's supposed to be one of ours," the former Fox News host said on ‘The Megyn Kelly Show’ on Tuesday. "Why do ours? Why are they always so wiggly?"

In the opinion, Barrett wrote, "The Framers recognized the difficulty of crafting election laws 'applicable to every probable change in the situation of the country.'"

She added that the Constitution left election law largely to elected officials rather than the courts.

"Suffice it to say, that power was not lodged in this Court," Barrett wrote. "The election-day statutes say nothing about ballot receipt, and we cannot add to the words Congress chose."

Kelly argued the ruling exposed divisions within the court's conservative bloc.

"I have to admire their commitment to their side," she said while referring to Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson. "They never abandon their side."

Megyn Kelly says conservatives expected more from 6-3 majority

Kelly contrasted that unity with what she described as conservatives' disappointment.

"We were supposed to have 6-3 conservatives to libs, and today, we only had four conservatives," she said. "That's how we lost, because Roberts and Barrett jumped over to the liberal side, and Barrett even wrote the court's majority opinion."

Kelly also criticized Chief Justice John Roberts, saying he was failing in what she described as his role as an institutional leader.

"That's not your job," she said. "That's not your job in the actual decision-making."

After the broadcast, Kelly continued attacking the decision on X (formerly Twitter), posting: "Barrett. AGAIN. WTF."

Republicans join criticism of Justice Amy Coney Barrett's opinion

Kelly was not alone in criticizing the decision. Republican Sen Eric Schmitt called it "a shockingly wrong opinion" in a post on X, writing that "Justice Barrett joins with the liberal justices to hold that federal election law does not preempt states who allow late mail-in ballots to be counted."

Republican Rep Abe Hamadeh's office also weighed in on X, asking, "Remember Election Day?"

The post added, "This disastrous SCOTUS decision, authored by Justice Barrett, guarantees we'll keep drifting away from it — as our sacred elections get bogged down by endless mail-in ballots and never-ending counts."