Prominent legal conservatives on Friday sought to tamp down a wave of sudden criticism directed at Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett over her vote to reject President Donald Trump’s attempt to freeze nearly $2 billion in foreign aid.

Barrett's vote on the foreign aid freeze "sparked a MAGA meltdown," said The Daily Beast. Barrett, the lone woman conservative justice, is "another DEI hire," said Trumpist influencer Mike Cernovich. Other influential activists on the Trumpist right echoed those criticisms. Barrett's vote is "a big problem," said journalist Eric Daugherty.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s vote this week to reject President Trump’s freeze on foreign aid could signal a new era in the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence — one that she could help shape alongside Chief Justice Roberts.

With many of President Donald Trump’s executive actions tangled up in the courts, MAGA Republicans have grown angry with Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett for some of her recent rulings, accusing her of being insufficiently loyal to Trump.