Thousands of women demonstrate against Donald Trump.

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Pat Nabong / AP / SIPA

Thousands of opponents of Donald Trump were expected this Saturday in the United States to demonstrate against the appointment to the Supreme Court of a conservative judge and against the re-election of the billionaire.

Magistrate Amy Coney Barrett, a devout Catholic, has been nominated to replace progressive icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died September 18, and the US president is banking on the Republican majority in the Senate to validate his choice ahead of the November 3 election .

"Fight like RBG"

In the capital, if the crowd was smaller than in 2017 because of the pandemic, several thousand people had joined the procession which was to pass in front of the Supreme Court and the American Congress in the early afternoon.

A group of demonstrators wore the red tunic and white bonnet from the novel "The Scarlet Handmaid", which describes an America transformed into a patriarchal dictatorship where some women become sex slaves.

Others wore the famous white ruff and black tunic of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, nicknamed "RBG", champion of the cause of women, a judge's hammer in hand.

In New York, about 300 demonstrators gathered in Washington Square, wearing a pink cap or carrying posters supporting Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate, or in memory of "RBG".

A sign showed her wearing boxing gloves and the slogan “Fight like RBG”.

"Our fundamental rights are threatened"

"It's really important to be here and encourage people to vote against Donald Trump and his misogynistic policy," said Yvonne Shackleton, from Albany, the capital of New York State.

She denounced a hasty appointment of Judge Barrett and a "reckless political gesture" two weeks before the poll and while Joe Biden is leading the polls.

Pia Otero, 49, assured that "women had to fight".

"Our fundamental rights are threatened by this president and this government, our right to abortion is attacked," she explained, denouncing an "abuse of power" by the president.

Heard this week by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Amy Coney Barrett vowed to keep her faith away from her work as a judge, refusing, however, to explain herself on a series of hot topics, starting with the right of American women to abort to which she is personally opposed.

On the contrary, it suggested that the judgment of the High Court which recognized this right in 1973 was not set in stone.

It must be confirmed by a vote in the upper house from October 22.

The temple of law would then have six conservative judges out of nine, a solid majority.

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