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reConservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett, 48, a mother of seven, is expected to fill the seat left vacant on the United States Supreme Court following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an icon of left-wing liberalism not only in the United States. United. If the Senate approves the president’s proposal, and that is likely despite a narrow Republican majority, then Donald Trump would have held three Supreme Court Justice seats during his first term. The conservative majority would be large and stable for many years, even decades.
It is this perspective of a permanent majority that rejoices the conservative evangelical and traditionalist Trump electorate and makes them forget the president’s frivolities. After all, four years ago many had chosen him primarily for that reason. This is the new trump card that Trump will play in just over a month to win a second term. It is his “legacy”; condemned by one, canonized by the other.
The fact that Republicans want to go ahead with the Senate nomination is politically embarrassing, but not legally denied. It was silly that four years ago, when a judge had died eight months before the election date, they refused even to debate Obama’s draft proposal, on the flimsy argument that the new president should have the right to nominate. It showed how deep they had sunk back then, into the snake pit of the political war of positions, into which the Supreme Court was also dragged.
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Its politicization is one of the terrible mistakes of the American political system. Because if a large conservative majority decides in the long term that a large part of the American population is not in the decisions, they consider them unfair and partisan – especially if the Democrats re-occupy the Senate and the White House – what will it be like? ? then will its acceptance and legitimacy be ordered? It’s probably not good. The Supreme Court will also be part of the great divide across politics and society in the United States. But what does “will” mean? It is now.
Because six of the nine judges are now assigned to the conservative field of constitutional interpretation, the value that conservatives hope is that the right to abortion is increasingly restricted or, in their view, even better, than the historical 1973 judgment, in which abortion is compatible with the constitution. It was declared, it has tip. Other conservative forces soon see the opportunity to confront Obama’s unloved, even hated health care reform with the ultimate death sentence.
Donald Trump introduces his candidate Amy Coney Barrett in Washington.
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However, the joke would be if the newly appointed court had to decide on the outcome of the presidential elections. In view of an expected closed election result in many constituencies and the many challenges already brewing for this reason, this is possible, perhaps even likely. How then would the “Trump judges” decide?
But that would be the biggest punchline: Trump loses the election, the Republicans lose the Senate (the House of Representatives is already ruled by the Democrats), and yet it is his selection of personnel for the Supreme Court that will keep the country, its politics and long-term society. Time will take shape. In the weeks ahead, beyond the election date, the intensity of enthusiasm in American politics will no longer be unbeatable.
