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AUS President Donald Trump “probably” wants to propose a woman to succeed the late Constitutional Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “We will have a candidate very soon,” Trump said in Washington on Saturday. “Most likely” will be a woman. “If someone asked me now, I would say a woman comes first,” Trump said. “Yes, choosing a woman would certainly be appropriate, I would say.”
Trump commented on two federal judges, Amy Coney Barrett and Barbara Lagoa, whose names are circulating as possible successors. They were both “highly respected,” he said. A source had named the two favorites to succeed Liberal Judge Ginsburg, who died on Friday.
Trump said he would likely announce his election next week. Last week he had already submitted a list of 20 possible candidates, all of them deeply conservative. Under the Constitution, the president appoints justices to the Supreme Court, but requires approval from the Senate, in which Trump’s Republicans have a slim majority.
Only two women remain on the Supreme Court
After Ginsburg’s death, there were only two women on the nine Supreme Court justices: Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, who had been appointed by then-President Barack Obama in the past.
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The vacancy in the constitutional court created by Ginsburg’s death offers Trump a chance to secure a conservative majority there, possibly for decades. Conservatives already have a preponderance in the college of judges, and this could now increase. Trump has appointed Conservative Constitutional Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh during his tenure thus far.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden urges that the decision be made in hopes that he will win the November election.
In conversation for the Supreme Court
US President Donald Trump commented on two possible candidates to succeed the late liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court on Saturday. They are both federal appellate judges.
Amy coney barrett
The 48-year-old taught at Notre Dame Law School in Indiana before being nominated by Trump in 2017 for a position on the federal appeals court in Chicago. The Senate confirmed the appointment of the Catholic Conservative with 55 to 43 votes. Opponents of a stricter abortion law fear that Barrett as a constitutional judge for the repeal of Roe v. Wade would vote, a 1973 Supreme Court ruling establishing a national right to abortion. Barrett has seven children.
Barbara Lago
The 52-year-old previously served on the Florida Supreme Court. Trump nominated her for a federal appeals court in Atlanta in 2019. Her nomination was confirmed by the Senate with 80-15 votes, and thus more across partisan lines. This makes her a less controversial candidate. Lagoa is of Cuban descent and was the first Hispanic constitutional judge in Florida.
