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Biden again asked the Senate not to rule before the November 3 presidential election on the choice of Amy Coney Barrett for the seat left by Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last week.
“Never in the history of our country has a Supreme Court justice been appointed and placed in the course of a presidential election,” Biden said at a news conference in Wilmington, his hometown of Delaware.
Voting for the next president of the United States has already begun in several states.
“President Trump has been trying for four years to eliminate the Affordable Care Act,” Joe Biden added of former President Barack Obama’s decree that created so-called Obamacare, when Biden was vice president.
“Now this administration believes that it has suddenly found an opportunity with the tragic death of Judge Ginsburg,” he added.
Biden recalled that the world is going through its worst health crisis in the last century and, despite this, “the Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to repeal the Affordable Care Act.”
A judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, a devout Catholic who worked with former Conservative Judge Antonin Scalia, Barrett was “deeply honored” by Trump’s confidence at a ceremony on the White House lawn.
Barrett will have been on the list of possible nominees in 2018, when Trump chose Brett Kavanaugh to replace Anthony Kennedy.
At age 48, if confirmed, Barrett will be the youngest judge on the United States Supreme Court, where all nine elements can remain for life.
Republican senators will do their best to get Barrett confirmed in the Senate, which they dominate, as quickly as possible ahead of the Nov. 3 presidential election, protecting conservative advances in the federal court system before a possible power shift.
Trump, for his part, hopes that the appointment of the Catholic judge will bring him electoral triumphs in the fight with Democrat Joe Biden for the occupation of the White House.
To be confirmed, Barrett will be the sixth of nine members of the Supreme Court appointed by a Republican president, and the third in Trump’s term.
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