USA.The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg turns the Supreme Court into a battlefield six weeks before the elections
Obituary.Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Jurist for History
The president of the
United States, Donald Trump, will
nominate conservative Judge
Amy Coney Barrett
this Saturday to
fill the vacancy left in the
Supreme Court
due to the death a week ago of progressive Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
media reported this Friday.
According to the
CNN
television network
,
which cited several
high-ranking
Republican Party
sources
, the
White House
has indicated that it intends to nominate
Barrett
during conversations with various leaders of the conservative political party in the country's Congress.
CNN sources, however, indicated that there is a possibility that Trump will change his election at the last minute.
The newspaper
The New York Times,
which named people familiar with the process confirmed that Trump has chosen Barrett, who currently serves on the US
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, based in
Chicago,
to succeed Ginsburg, after keeping with her one meeting this week at the
White House.
According to the sources of the newspaper, the president was impressed with this judge, about whom reputable jurists would have spoken of her as a future
Antonin Scalia,
the conservative magistrate of the Supreme Court who died in 2016 and for which Barrett was judicial secretary.
Those same sources also warned that it is common for Trump to change plans at the last minute, and that for now it is unknown if he has interviewed other candidates for the position.
Barrett, 48-year-old Catholic, is the antithesis of Ginsburg, considered a feminist icon, at least when it comes to the
right to abortion,
which she advocates cutting back on most assumptions.
Trump is scheduled to present his nominee to the Supreme Court tomorrow, Saturday, as he announced last weekend that she would be a woman.
The favorite on the list is Barrett;
followed by Cuban-American Bárbara Lagoa, 52;
and Allison Jones Rushing, only 38;
plus a White House attorney, Kate Todd;
according to sources close to the selection process cited by The New York Times.
All of them supposedly fit the criteria that Trump has claimed to seek in a judge, with the aim of winning the favor and votes of the Christian right: the opposition to abortion and the fierce defense of the right to bear arms.
If confirmed by the Senate, where the leader of the Republican majority, Mitch McConnell, has already announced that he will put the candidate chosen by the president to a vote, it would be the third nominee by Trump to reach the Supreme Court, after Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
With his possible ascension to that court, the person nominated by Trump would consolidate the majority of rights in the court with six conservative judges and three progressives.
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