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One right should judge him: President Donald Trump wants to name staunch Catholic Amy Coney Barrett as successor to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Saturday. With that, the darling of the conservative establishment in Washington prevails.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett is the Conservatives’ favorite candidate in Washington.
On the first try, he left empty-handed. In 2018, President Donald Trump preferred a man when he was able to fill a vacancy on the Washington Supreme Court. On the second try, Amy Coney Barrett should now board the train. The US media unanimously reported on Friday that the appellate judge had won the race and, at Trump’s request, should succeed Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who passed away last Friday. Trump did not want to confirm these reports at the moment. In an interview with journalists, he admitted that he had made a decision. She also described Barrett as “excellent”. But Trump also said that he had not yet informed anyone of his election. That is probably not true, as the US media reports refer to anonymous sources in the Senate. Officially, the president wants to present his candidate for the post of judge on Saturday at 11 pm (Swiss time) at the White House.
Barrett, 48, one of 14 judges on a federal appeals court in Chicago, Illinois, has long been considered a figurehead among conservative lawyers. This has to do with his impressive career: after studying at Rhodes College in Memphis (Tennessee) and at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana) School of Law, he served, among other things, the late Antonin Scalia in 2016, the unofficial leader of the right-wing bloc in the Supreme. Court, as a “law clerk.” Like his former boss, Barrett interprets the American Constitution literally. After a brief stint in the private sector, she returned to Notre Dame Law School in 2002. In 2010 she was appointed Professor of Law at the Catholic University.
Mother of seven children
Her defenders also like to point out that the lawyer is the mother of seven children, all under the age of 20. Two of them were born in Haiti. Barrett and her husband, a former prosecutor, adopted her. Barrett also participates in her place of residence, the university town of South Bend, in a charismatic religious community called the People of Praise.
She says of herself that she is a “staunch Catholic” and takes her faith very seriously. However, your beliefs do not influence your interpretation of the law. When Barrett was appointed as an appeals judge by Trump in the fall of 2017, she faced critical questions about the compatibility of her Catholic faith with impartial jurisprudence in the Senate, which has the final say on the judge’s personal details. California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein confronted Barrett: “Dogma lives strong in you, and that’s worrying.” Republicans described these reservations as anti-Catholic sentiment. In right-wing America, however, it suddenly became known thanks to this barrage, which also pointed to Barrett’s comments critical of abortion. On October 31, 2017, the Senate confirmed it with 55 votes to 43; three Catholic Democrats voted with the Republican senators.
Trump wants to fill the vacant seat on the Supreme Court as soon as possible and before Election Day on November 3. He justified this rush at the risk of a stalemate, as currently only eight of the nine Supreme Court seats are occupied. In fact, conservative judges already provide five of the eight seats. The Republican majority in the Senate supports Trump’s actions. A hearing with the appointed Supreme Court judge could already take place in mid-October.
