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During confirmation hearings for that post, Democrats questioned her public statements and Catholicism, making her a hero to religious conservatives who denounced what they called unfair attacks on her faith. But liberals pointed to her writings to say they feared she would overturn Roe v. Wade and other rulings on gay rights, health care and other matters.
“If nominated and confirmed, Coney Barrett would work to dismantle everything Ruth Bader Ginsburg fought for during her extraordinary career,” said Alphonso David, president of the Human Rights Campaign, which promotes the rights of LGBTQ Americans, prior to the campaign. of Trump. ad. “An appointment of this magnitude must be made by the president inaugurated in January.”
Jeanne Mancini, president of March for Life, an anti-abortion group, called Judge Barrett’s selection “exciting news” for conservatives. “We are confident that she will fairly apply the law and the constitution as written, which includes protecting our nation’s most vulnerable – our unborn children,” he said.
Polls show that most Americans say the winner of the November 3 election should take the seat rather than Trump rushing an appointment before then. But the president made it clear last week that he wanted his election on the field in time to pronounce on any challenges arising from the election itself, guaranteeing what he hopes is an additional vote to potentially secure a second term.
Confirming it by then would require a 38-day sprint through a process that since 1975 has generally taken twice as long, all at the same time that many senators want to be in their home states to campaign. Since 1949, no Supreme Court nomination that has been so questioned has been confirmed so quickly.
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee that will examine Judge Barrett’s nomination, and himself, an incumbent facing serious electoral challenge, planned to outline the confirmation process for the first time in a statement Saturday. the night after the president’s announcement.
Graham’s schedule will require much less time than usual for lawmakers to meet and examine Judge Barrett than recent nominees, cutting down to about two weeks a stage of the process that has normally lasted six. Later parts of the process would also be compressed. White House officials had already started communicating Thursday and Friday to begin scheduling courtesy visits to lawmakers who wanted them, even before there was a nominee.
