President Trump has confirmed the appointment of Judge Amy Coney Barrett

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US President Donald Trump has announced he will nominate conservative federal judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the Supreme Court seat. Point to be noted that the seat was vacated after the death of Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg. President has accepted he plans to seat a 6^th conservative justice who he predicts will help decide whether he serves a second term. Trump said he was fulfilling one of his top duties and called it a very proud moment. He delivered his words and said the country had spent the week honoring a legend in Judge Ginsburg. He called Barrett a judge of sterling credentials and dedication to the constitution. She has a long track record of interpreting the text of the 231-year-old United States constitution as inflexible and etched in legal stone.

Barrett’s opinions since becoming a federal jurist, as well as her prolific canon of academic writings, show she shares the views of the president and his conservative base on everything from strict abortion rights to limiting restrictions on gun rights. US Democrats, Anti-abortion, and women’s rights activists fear her probable confirmation. Democrats were finding options to try delaying her taking the vacant high court seat until after Election Day. The US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the president had the votes required to seat her with a speedy Senate confirmation process. President Trump admired her academic and career history. Barrett has served as Supreme Court clerk for the late high court justice Antonin Scalia. President said she was celebrated by her colleagues at the University of Notre Dame.

President Trump said, “You are going to be fantastic, absolutely fantastic”. The invited guests applauded, she mouthed, Thank you. Trump said she would uphold an independent judiciary even as Democrats say Trump is trying to ensure a conservative high court might hand him the presidential election should it be contested on grounds of illegitimate mail-in ballots. President issued a statement and said, “Amy Coney Barrett will decide cases based on the text of the constitution as it is written. There is no one better to do that than Amy Coney Barrett. I am supremely confident Judge Barrett will make rulings based on a fair reading of the law”. Joe Biden responded the announcement and said, “Today, President Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, a jurist with a written track record of disagreeing with the Court’s decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act”.