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Amy Coney Barrett will succeed the late Justice Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. US President Trump said this at the White House. His election would cement the conservative majority in the body.
US President Donald Trump nominated conservative attorney Amy Coney Barrett to the vacant seat on the US Supreme Court. Trump announced his decision at a ceremony in Washington. Barrett, 48, will be the successor to liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last week.
Conservative attorney Barrett is 48 years old and was born in New Orleans. He has been a federal judge since 2017, appointed by Trump. At the same time, she works as a university professor at Notre Dame Law School, where she studied herself. Barrett was on the shortlist for the constitutional judge position in 2017.
The Senate must vote before the presidential elections
According to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republicans in the US Senate should vote on Barrett’s establishment “in the next few weeks.” Trump could not have made “a better decision” with his preferred candidate, McConnell said. Expect to meet Barrett next week.
Favorite of the religious right
Politically, the practicing Catholic is considered the favorite of the religious right in the United States, especially for her critical stance on abortion. So-called evangelicals are an important group of voters for Trump. If the Senate confirms Barrett, then the Conservatives on the Supreme Court will have a clear majority in the nine-member body, with six or three votes. The new majority is very likely to lead to a political and social shift to the right. The liberal abortion law could be restricted and the Obama presidency’s health care reform could be overturned entirely.
It is unclear whether the swift replacement of the presiding judge position will actually give President Trump an electoral advantage. According to a recent poll, nearly 60 percent of all Americans would prefer that the new constitutional judge had not been appointed until after the November 3 congressional and presidential elections, selected by the winner of the election and confirmed by the then Newly composed Congress.
With information from Sebastian Hesse, ARD-Studio Washington
