Amy Coney Barrett has finally explained why she voted to end the constitutional right to an abortion in a new book that reportedly earned the conservative Supreme Court justice a $2 million advance.

Since President Donald Trump took office, Coney Barrett has emerged as one of the court’s most closely watched justices, as she has occasionally broken with her fellow conservatives to side with the court’s liberal justices.

The former Notre Dame law professor and federal appellate judge also recused herself from a high-profile case involving a Catholic charter school, which ultimately led to a conservative defeat, and ripped into Trump’s solicitor general for disrespecting her liberal colleague Justice Elena Kagan.

Those “betrayals” have at times earned Coney Barrett the ire of the same

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