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The Senate on Monday night confirmed Judge Amy Coney Barrett as the 115th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and the fifth woman to serve on the court. The 48-year-old Barrett fills the seat previously held by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Sept. 18 of complications from pancreatic cancer.
On Monday morning, after Air Force One landed in Allentown, Pennsylvania, for a campaign event, President Donald Trump was asked by the press pool whether he was planning a White House event to celebrate the presumed confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. “Yeah, we’re going to see
Fred Schilling, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States Amy Coney Barrett took the judicial oath Tuesday morning to become the Supreme Court’s 115th justice, joining the bench at a time when the court is being asked to rule on pressing issues related to next week’s presidential election.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett moved one step closer to becoming Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday. In a hearing that Democratic senators boycotted, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to send Barrett’s nomination to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the floor.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday concluded its hearings on Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett and, amid unsuccessful efforts by Democrats to delay the process, scheduled a committee vote to send her nomination to the full Senate on Oct. 22.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett spent another day eschewing substantive pronouncements and promising judicial impartiality in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, the second and final day in which senators had a chance to question President Donald Trump’s nominee to succeed the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett declined on Tuesday to answer questions about her views on the Affordable Care Act, abortion, same-sex marriage and a slew of other issues, saying repeatedly that she has made “no pre-commitments” about how she would decide any case if she were confirmed.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday afternoon that “courts are not designed to solve every problem or right every wrong” after a day of polarized back-and-forth in which senators quarreled over the Supreme Court’s prominent role in health care, abortion, voting rights and electoral politics.
Amid an ongoing pandemic, the recent death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and a looming confirmation battle, the eight justices of the Supreme Court began a new term last Monday.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett, now a Supreme Court nominee, has followed a well-worn path of nominees before her. President Donald Trump nominated her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit on Nov. 2, 2017.
The Republican plan to swiftly confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court is in disarray after three Republican senators – including two on the Senate Judiciary Committee – tested positive for the coronavirus.
Who is Judge Amy Coney Barrett and what’s next for her confirmation battle? Amy Howe answers these questions and more on this week’s episode of SCOTUStalk.