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US President Donald Trump will announce his nomination for the Supreme Court vacancy on Sunday night. Amy Coney Barrett is considered her favorite according to media reports.
6:45 PM, September 26, 2020
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, wants to announce his nomination for the vacancy on the Supreme Court tomorrow night (our time). According to related media reports (New York Times, Washington Post, CNN) Amy Coney Barrett as successor nominate the late liberal judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg. If Trump were to actually decide in favor of the 48-year-old, who repeatedly notes that she is a devout Catholic, conservative Supreme Court justices would have a majority of six to three seats in the future.
The United States Supreme Court has the final word on matters of principle on issues such as abortion, immigration, gun rights and discrimination. Amy Coney Barrett is a strict anti-abortionist. He wanted the Supreme Court to be fully occupied, also with a view to possible disputes over the outcome of the presidential elections. The president has been claiming for weeks that mailed ballots dramatically increased the risk of voter fraud.. Experts deny it.
I was afraid of a shift to the right
Judge Barbara Lagoa was also shortlisted. Trump had already said beforehand that he had not met with Lagoa at an election campaign event in Florida.
Democrats fear you Scroll right on the Supreme Court – and therefore potentially also in American society in general. They demand that the appointment be postponed until after the presidential election on November 3. Republicans have a majority in the Senate, which must approve the nomination. Currently there does not appear to be a lock there.
The judges of the Supreme Court will be designated for life. Thus, Trump could build a clear conservative majority there for many years. During his tenure, he has already filled two other vacant positions with candidates of his choice.
Barrett He was nominated by Trump in 2017 for a position on the federal appeals court in Chicago. At the hearing on the charge, the mother of seven emphasized that he wanted to be guided only by the law and not by his faith. However, opponents of a stricter abortion law fear that, as a constitutional judge, she will vote to overturn a 1973 Supreme Court ruling that established a national right to abortion.
