USA, Senate Approval & Sworn In: Amy Barrett Is New Supreme Court Justice | Trump: “Historic Day”

What changes in court A week before the vote, this is a huge victory for the president, who gives the Superior Court an overwhelming conservative majority – six robes out of nine. A situation that had not arisen since the 1930s before Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal. A turning point that could affect the justice system and social life of Americans for decades, given that Supreme Court justices have no deadline. And an advance to which Trump contributed enormously, having had the opportunity to appoint, before the ultra-Catholic Barrett, two other conservative justices: Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. “I will keep my position regardless of politics and my preferences,” Barrett said.

The possible consequences At this point, the ruling role usually played by the President of the Court, John Roberts, who in several cases voted with his liberal colleagues despite being nominated by Republican George W. Bush, could also be nullified. With the appointment of Amy Barrett, Trump may have paved the way not only for the abolition of Obamacare, Barack Obama’s hated health care reform, but also for challenging the landmark Roe vs. Wade ruling that in 1973 legalized abortion, as well as the more recently that recognized the right to gay marriage, and many other achievements on the civil rights front.

The opposition of the democrats That is why the Democrats have tried to hold back the Republicans in the Senate in every way. The nod for the nomination came with 52 votes to 48. The 48-year-old conservative Catholic judge with seven children, including two adoptees, received the vote of all Republican senators except Senator Susan Collins. All Democratic senators voted against it. “You have stolen the vacancy left by Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” says the indictment against Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer. “The Democrats wanted to put in an activist judge,” replied Republican Majority Leader Sen. Mitch Mc Connell.