Donald Trump plays the card of Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative anti-abortion Catholic on the Supreme Court

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Donald Trump plays the card of Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative anti-abortion Catholic on the Supreme Court. The announcement from the Rose Garden of the White House, where Barrett appeared with her entire family, husband and seven children. “Thank you for sharing your mother with our country,” the words of the US president.
Trump’s is a move that could relaunch his electoral campaign, with the appointment of a 48-year-old judge who is capable of influencing the orientation of the Superior Court for decades with his strongly traditionalist vision.
Not to mention that the number of constitutional trials with a conservative matrix goes to 6 compared to 3 for liberal nominations, with an unprecedented imbalance in recent history. This is of no small importance, even in anticipation of a possible showdown over the outcome of the vote, which could end right before the Supreme Court.
But Coney Barrett, a former disciple of the hawk Antonin Scalia and a magistrate of the Chicago Court of Appeals since 2017, is also a letter that carries serious risks for Trump, such as galvanizing only the hard core of his supporters, mostly ultra-conservative and evangelicals. Although it could alienate part of the electorate, especially women and independents. But with the presidential election less than a month away, risk is part of the game. Trump knows this, and that is why once again he would have relied little on calculations and more on instinct, without listening to those within the walls of the White House who invited him to bet on a more shared option: as the appeals judge from Florida Barbara. Lagoa, 52, who in the past had bipartisan support and who would have taken her appeal to the Hispanic electorate as a dowry.
The American president, for his part, has wanted to meet only Amy Coney Barrett in recent days. If it had been for him, he would have already chosen her in 2018 to replace retired Constitutional Judge Anthony Kennedy. But he became convinced that it was better to wait and that Amy’s future lay in Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s place. Now Trump hopes that his decision will help him win the final sprint against Joe Biden, pending the so-called ‘October surprise’, that green light for the coronavirus vaccine for which Trump would be willing to do anything, assuming the role. of the savior of the homeland after the numerous criticisms for the management of the pandemic.
However, the president can get a result as early as Tuesday night, when in the first of three televised duels with his opponent for the White House he will force him to confront each other for reasons more agreeable to him: justice, abortion, Obamacare, while Biden expected to focus primarily on the health emergency and the dramatic consequences on the economy and jobs.
And if Trump asks the Senate to move quickly now with confirmation of the appointment, Biden is appealing not to make the decision before the Nov.3 election.
Meanwhile, Barrett’s hearing is expected to begin on October 12 and last for four days.
Trump right now has the numbers and his opponents are still biting their hands over the failed attempt by Barack Obama, who seven years ago tried to convince Judge Ginsburg, then in his eighties and already battling cancer, to take a step back. It was July 2013 and the then president invited her to a working lunch at the White House: but Ginsburg did not capitulate, despite the fact that Obama spoke to him of his fears for the 2014 midterm elections, when in reality the Democrats they lost power. Senate. Now, for that lunch that ended in black smoke, American Democrats could pay a huge bill.