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- Conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett is set to succeed the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the United States Supreme Court. US President Donald Trump announced the nomination on Saturday.
- The Catholic Barrett is known as an anti-abortionist. That makes his candidacy attractive to arch-conservative circles.
- Constitutional judges are appointed for life in the United States. At 48, Barrett has a long time ahead of him on the Supreme Court.
Attorney Amy Coney Barrett is one of America’s brightest legal experts, said President Donald Trump.
With the 48-year-old Barrett, conservative justices would have a clear majority of six of the nine Supreme Court seats, which could change American society forever. The United States Supreme Court often has the final say on policy issues such as abortion, immigration, gun law, and discrimination. Conservatives are believed to make a fresh attempt to revoke or restrict the right to abortion and same-sex marriage.
Catholic and anti-abortion
Barrett had been traded as the most promising of several candidates in recent days. He has been a judge in an appeals court since 2017. The Catholic is considered an anti-abortionist.
This makes his candidacy attractive to arch-conservative circles, while liberals were already concerned in 2017. At the Senate hearing for his current position, Barrett said he was guided only by the law, not his beliefs.
Despite protests from Democrats: A few weeks before the election, US President Donald Trump nominates the conservative Amy Coney Barrett to succeed the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Barrett’s first hearing on October 12
The judges of the Supreme Court are appointed for life. They are proposed by the president and approved by the Senate. Republicans have a majority of 53 of the 100 seats in the House.
Trump aims to fill Ginsburg’s job before the November 3 presidential election. According to media reports, Barrett’s first hearing is scheduled for October 12. With it, Trump would already occupy the third seat of the Supreme Court.
Democrats want to wait until election results
So far, only two Republican senators have spoken out against such a swift decision. Democrats surrounding Trump’s challenger Joe Biden are demanding that the winner of the presidential election decide who will be Ginsburg’s successor.
Another factor contributing to the controversy surrounding the nomination is the fact that in 2016 Republicans in the Senate blocked a candidate from then-President Barack Obama to succeed the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stated at the time, among other things, that the Senate should not hold any Supreme Court justice position in an election year. Now he withdrew this rule on the grounds that this time the White House and the Senate were in the hands of a single party.
Biden warns
Biden recalled that Barrett had criticized the Supreme Court’s reasoning in support of Obama’s health care reform. Now Trump “has once again targeted American health care.”
US President Donald Trump wants to put conservative attorney Amy Coney Barrett in office before the election and thus consolidate the conservative majority on the US Supreme Court.
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Trump refers to the elections
Trump also said he wanted to keep the Supreme Court fully occupied with a view to possible disputes over the outcome of the presidential election. For weeks, he has claimed that mailed ballots dramatically increased the risk of voter fraud. The experts and those responsible for the elections deny it.
