• United States.Amy Coney Barrett, an ultraconservative to replace Ginsburg at the helm of the Supreme

Donald Trump was true to his word and moved quickly.

Just eight days after Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death, she appeared at the White House with the Justice of her choice to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court,

Amy Coney Barrett

, a religious and conservative woman to the core who can shake up the November 3 elections.

Now begins a process that confirms by the Senate that the Democrats will try to torpedo despite not having enough votes to prevent the conservative majority from solidifying at the head of the United States judiciary.

Republicans hope to execute the process in record time and devoid of any controversy, as the president sarcastically noted in the White House rose garden after introducing Barrett as his nominee.

Certainly there will be, albeit at a disadvantage for Democratic interests since they only control 47 of the 100 Senate seats.

They are also against the Justice Committee, chaired by Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, one of Trump's most fervent allies.

That body that leads the process and studies the president's proposal has already confirmed that

the hearings to examine Barrett will be on October 12

, moving three times faster than in previous nominations.

With this there are already three since Trump assumed the Presidency.

The contrast is stark from 2016, when then-President Barack Obama tried to assert Merrick Garland's nomination to the Supreme Court following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, one of Barrett's mentors, for whom he worked for years.

The Republicans blocked the process for 11 months, resorting to an argument that this time they have skipped the bullfight: wait until the next legislature for the person elected at the polls to make the decision.

Only two Republican senators initially aligned themselves with this precept.

Maine Representative Susan Collins and her Alaska counterpart Lisa Murkowski voiced their opposition last week to naming a Bader Ginsburg replacement ahead of the election.

Collins has been adamant on the idea but Murkowski now appears to be wavering.

She is not seduced by Barrett's pro-life stance.

Even so, everything seems to indicate that Mitch McConell, the leader of the Republican majority in the Senate, will have enough votes so that there are 6 magistrates in the Supreme Court compared to 3 progressives, a lifetime position that in the case of Barrett, 48, could translate into decades of conservative rulings.

During his years of judicial career, he has made it clear that he is not only against abortion in any of its aspects, but that he is in favor of the right to arms and a tough stance against immigration, always with religion as the flag.

Barrett is convinced that the ultimate mission of a law career, no matter how brilliant, is to serve God.

His profile fits in perfectly with the kind of legacy Trump hopes to leave behind when he leaves the White House.

Hence the rush to nominate her, although this political opportunism apparently goes against the popular will.

A recent ABC poll shows that 57% would have preferred that a Bader Ginsburg substitute not be elected until after the election.

However, the move could represent a good handful of votes in November by counting, indirectly, with a woman in her campaign formula that could mobilize evangelicals, Catholics, and a part of the undecided young and female vote to the polls.

It would also draw attention away from the pandemic that has already claimed more than 200,000 lives throughout the country and that does not favor Trump at all, at a time of full escalation of cases in several states.

At the same time, Barrett's nomination could mean more support for Joe Biden's candidacy as many voters fear that years of social policy advances will be destroyed by progressive measures.

Democrats will have to handle the strategy carefully, avoiding personally burdening Barrett, whom Trump introduced as a proud mother of seven children, two of them adopted from Haiti and one with Down syndrome.

She described herself as a mother deeply involved in the education of her children, a personal asset with which millions of Americans could identify.

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