Detroit City Wire

The host of "The Frank Beckmann Show" on WJR radio spoke with Laura Wolk, former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and former student of Amy Coney Barrett at Notre Dame Law School.

Wolk, who has been completely blind since the age of 15 months as a result of eye cancer retinoblastoma, said that Barrett has been an incredible friend and ally as she begins her law career. Beckmann called her a "budding legal star."

"I'm starting my career as a lawyer," Wolk told Beckmann. "I'm a baby lawyer. And, you know, I'm really learning the ropes and trying to figure out so much. In the same time, (Barrett's) career is going through this major transition. She's becoming a judge on the 7th Circuit and all that that entails and also the transition with her family. And even given all of that, she always had time for me. If I needed to speak with her, I could send her an email. And she was so quick to get in touch and to chat with me about any issue that I was having as I tried navigating this new career path. I think that is something that is so essential about Judge Barrett. She is one of the busiest people that you could possibly imagine, but she always makes time."

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Wolk also commented on Barrett's opening statement that revealed how sees her role as a judge.

"She really emphasized in that opening statement her position on what the judicial role is and how she thinks that the job of a judge is to follow the law and to be a really faithful agent to the text of a statute or the text of the Constitution," Wolk told Beckmann.

Wolk also spoke of Barrett's character and compassion.

"It's a real rarity to meet someone who has developed those gifts to such a high degree that even if... they don't have firsthand experience with something, they are able to still understand where you're coming from and to just walk with you, you know, to just hear you out and enter into the things that you're experiencing," Wolk said on the radio program.