Justice Amy Coney Barrett says US could learn from Erika Kirk: 'Fighting poison with poison doesn't work'

WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett lauded Charlie Kirk’s widow for showing “strength with grace” in the aftermath of her husband’s assassination and urged others to follow Erika Kirk’s example.

Barrett and her colleague, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, were the surprise guests at the Federalist Society’s Antonin Scalia Memorial Dinner Thursday night in Washington, where they both talked of coping with harassment, protests and death threats as conservative members of the nation’s highest court.

Barrett, 53, marveled at Erika Kirk forgiving her husband’s accused murderer just days after investigators say Tyler Robinson fatally shot the Turning Point USA co-founder during an event Sept. 10 at Utah Valley University.

“In the face of the kind of poisonous hostility that