ABC’s ‘Home Economics’ Erases Amy Coney Barrett from Supreme Court

ABC’s sitcom Home Economics celebrated women on the Supreme Court this week with a musical number. But not all women. The name Amy Coney Barrett was noticeably absent.

In the episode ‘Workout Leggings, $29’ on Wednesday, siblings Tom and Sarah Hayworth (Topher Grace and Caitlin McGee) are writing a musical for a prestigious private California elementary school where Sarah is a counselor.

The musical is titled “Unsung Sheroes: A Celebration of Groundbreaking Women from Sacagawea to Sotomayor.” Tom and Sarah show their family a song that they wrote about women at the Supreme Court.

Luckily, there are three elementary school girls among the many Hayworth cousins to perform the song as Supreme Court justices. This would be a great number, as there are three women justices currently on the U.S. Supreme Court: Sonya Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett. This isn’t how it plays out.

KelvinGreetings, gentlemen and ladies. It’s the Supremes, your ladies, straight from the capital! [Cheers and applause] Elena Kagan! Sonya Sotomayor! The only and most notorious RBG [Cheers and applause] 

Shamiah: ♪ You can’t hurry law ♪ ♪ No, you must have debate ♪ ♪ She said law don’t come easy ♪ ♪ Sometimes you kick it back to states ♪ 

Camila: ♪ But how many verdicts must we stand?

Marina: ♪ – Aw, this is amazing. Your two are a great team.

Camila: ♪ Straight white man ♪

TomYou don’t know what you are doing? We do.

SarahYes, that’s what we do. This is the last time we’ll do it.

Tom?????Oh, my God! 

Gretchen: ♪ Just hangin’ on ♪ ♪ It’s women’s rights. You can’t take them away. ♪

The introduction completely ignores two women who rose up to the position of U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Amy Coney Barrett (left) and Sandra Day O’Connor (right). They were both nominated in part by Republican presidents. Considering that the song is introduced with, “Straight from the Capitol” wouldn’t announcing Amy Coney Barrett make more sense than the “notorious RBG”? After all, Ginsburg has been dead since 2020. Does Ginsburg’s ghost arrive at the Capitol?

For radically left Hollywood, only left-wing Democratic women exist or matter in history. All achievements of Republican or conservative women have been erased.

Then again, in today’s climate one wonders why the writers even let Tom and Sarah presume what a woman is. To paraphrase current Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, they aren’t biologists!