US elections: D-3 and home stretch

Democratic candidate Joe Biden facing US President Donald Trump on September 29, 2020, during the first televised debate before the presidential election on November 3, 2020. JIM WATSON, SAUL LOEB / AFP

By: Marie-France Chatin Follow

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The American president took advantage of the last days of the campaign to ensure the Republican Party a comfortable seat in the Supreme Court by having the Senate confirm, in record time, the conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett to succeed the progressive Ruth Bader Ginsbourg , disappeared in September 2020.

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The conservative majority of the US Supreme Court has thus fallen to six judges against three.

A record for this jurisdiction which plays an essential role in the lives of American citizens.

But a risky strategy in view of the demographic evolution of the USA and the extreme polarization of the country ...

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, professor of International Relations at the American University of Paris

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, historian and university professor.

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