Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, on September 9, 2025. Mario Tama/Getty Images/File

Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh delivered a pep talk to conservatives on Thursday night, telling an audience of right-leaning legal leaders and students in Washington, DC, they should stand up for their principles and “fight fire with strength and grace.”

Barrett drew hearty applause at the annual gathering of the Federalist Society for her message to female law school students who might feel pressure to conform.

“Being a conservative woman in a law school, particularly, takes a lot of courage and independence, and in many ways shows more feminism than just falling into some predetermined vision of what a woman should be,” Barrett

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