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Neither Trump nor the White House confirmed the election. At a press conference on Friday, the president said he already had the person to be nominated in mind; A few days ago he said that he would choose to put a woman on the Supreme Court.
“I didn’t say it was, but it’s incredible,” Trump said, avoiding confirming Barrett’s name.
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The conservative profile of Barrett, 48, is significantly out of step with Ginsburg’s progressive history. So, confirming the choice, the Supreme Court will have a majority of conservative justices: it will be 6 to 3. With Ginsburg, that majority was fiercer, 5 to 4.
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Barrett is Catholic and tends to have a conservative perspective on issues such as the legalization of abortion, a practice allowed in the United States by a 1973 Supreme Court decision that is frequently challenged legally in the country. In 2013, the lawyer said that life “begins with conception.”
He is a member of the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago and studied law at Notre Dame Law School in Indiana. Barrett also worked for Antonin Scalia, a conservative Supreme Court justice who was also a Catholic. He died in 2016, at the end of Barack Obama’s term, and it was Donald Trump the following year who chose his replacement.
The potential new Supreme Court Justice is also aligned with Trump’s positions on gun use and immigration, according to the BBC. However, it is unclear whether she and other more conservative judges will try to reverse the 2015 decision on same-sex marriage, as the president himself said he “agreed” with the decision in favor of gay couples.
If elected, Barrett will also have to be approved by the Senate, which shouldn’t be an obstacle, after all, Republicans still have a majority of senators, something that could change depending on elections in some states in November.
