How a Justice Amy Coney Barrett would reshape the Supreme Court

There's a lot of commentary here, a lot of it fanciful, but Mark Tushnet (emeritus, Harvard Law) cuts to the chase and probably gets it right:

With a newly constituted Supreme Court, we’re not going to see dramatic changes in constitutional law within a year. But let’s assume the court stays the same for the next five years (perhaps with replacements for Justices Stephen Breyer and Clarence Thomas). Over that period, we can expect the court to hold race-based affirmative action unconstitutional in public universities and banned by statute for private colleges; uphold one or two newly enacted restrictions on access to abortion and then, toward the end of the period, overrule Roe v. Wade; and strike down some fairly restrictive regulations of gun ownership while upholding most of the more important restrictions. The court won’t retrench on the core of its gay rights holdings, but it will allow businesspeople who object for religious reasons to providing services to LGBTQ-plus people to avoid liability under antidiscrimination laws (more broadly than a court with a liberal majority would).

Tushnet also thinks a far right Court will push back on Democratic economic regulations, although he says, rightly, it will all depend on the details that can't be predicted in advance.

ADDENDUM:  Everything you wanted to know about Judge Barrett's scholarly and judicial work, courtesy of the Congressional Research Office.  (Thanks to Dean Rowan for the pointer.)