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The conservative profile of Barrett, 48, is significantly out of step with Ginsburg’s progressive history. So, with the Senate confirming the election, the Supreme Court will have a majority of conservative justices: it will be 6v3. With Ginsburg, that majority was fiercer, 5v4. If approved, it will also be the youngest to occupy the field.
Trump nominee Amy Coney quotes Ginsburg: ‘I’ll pay attention to who came before me’
At an event at the White House this afternoon, Trump said Barrett “will make decisions in accordance with the text of the Constitution as it is written.” According to the president, the judge will act in cases such as the defense of the Second Amendment -which deals with access to arms in the United States- and religious freedom, subjects much loved by the conservative Republicans of the country.
Later, Barrett said he was happy with the Supreme Court nomination and praised predecessor Ginsburg, even though the two have different views on different issues. “She was a very talented woman,” he said.
Barrett will have to go through 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.
This is Trump’s third nomination: Earlier, he named Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court seats.
Tension in the election of the Supreme Court
Barrett’s nomination, in fact, comes amid a mess over the succession of vacancies on the Supreme Court in an election year in the United States. In 2016, with Scalia’s death in an election year, Congress understood that only the next president, and not Barack Obama, could nominate his successor.
Now, however, the government leadership in the Senate says that Trump has the right to choose the successor judge in the Ginsburg seat because he considers that the ruling party has the most senators this time, unlike 2016.
The approval of the vacancy in the coming weeks is considered crucial for Trump because the president himself has declared more than once that the US presidential elections can end in the Supreme Court, that is, the president admits that he cannot accept an eventual Joe Biden win. In addition, there are fears that the Senate will lose the Republican majority, as some states also elect senators in November.
Who is Amy Coney Barrett?
Jurist Amy Coney Barrett in the August 2018 photo – Photo: Rachel Malehorn, rachelmalehorn.smugmug.com, via AP
Mother of 7 children, Barrett is catholic and tends to have conservative view on issues such as the legalization of abortion – 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.
