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Amy Coney Barrett confirmed to US Supreme Court

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The US Senate has confirmed Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court in a victory for President Donald Trump a week before the presidential election.

Mr Trump’s fellow Republicans voted 52-48 to approve the judge, overcoming the unified opposition of Democrats.

Her appointment seals for the foreseeable future a 6-3 conservative majority on the top US judicial body.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden called the move rushed and unprecedented.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said that by going ahead with the vote so close to the election the Republican majority was “lighting its credibility on fire”.

Democrats fear Judge Barrett’s confirmation to the lifelong post will favour Republicans in politically sensitive cases that reach America’s top court for potentially decades to come.

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Justice Barrett, 48, took the oath of office at the White House alongside President Trump.

Only one Republican, Senator Susan Collins, who faces a tough re-election battle in Maine, voted against the president’s nominee in Monday evening’s vote.

The new justice is the third appointed by the Republican president, after Neil Gorsuch in 2017 and Brett Kavanaugh in 2018.

The federal appeals court judge from Indiana fills the vacancy left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal icon who died last month.

What happened at the White House?

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Supreme Court justices take two oaths before beginning their job – the constitutional oath and the judicial oath.

President Trump, just returned from campaigning in Pennsylvania, presided over Justice Barrett’s constitutional oath ceremony on Monday night.

Mr Trump said: “This is a momentous day for America, for the United States constitution and for the fair and impartial rule of law.”

He added: “She is one of our nation’s most brilliant legal scholars and she will make an outstanding justice on the highest court in our land.”


Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, a conservative, administered the oath of office to his new colleague.

Justice Barrett said afterwards: “A judge declares independence not only from the Congress and the president, but also from the private beliefs that might otherwise move her.

“The judicial oath captures the essence of the judicial duty: the rule of law must always control.”

Justice Barrett took the judicial oath in a private ceremony at the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

Monday’s White House ceremony took place on the south lawn of the executive mansion. It came a month after a similar event to unveil Justice Barrett as the president’s nominee was linked to a Covid-19 outbreak that was followed by the president himself testing positive for the disease.

At 48, Judge Barrett becomes the Supreme Court’s youngest justice.

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Who is Amy Coney Barrett?

  • Favoured by social conservatives due to record on issues like abortion and gay marriage
  • An originalist, which means interpreting US Constitution as authors intended, not moving with the times
  • Spent just three years on the bench as a federal appeals court judge, following a long career as a law professor
  • A devout Catholic, she lives in Indiana and has seven children, including two adopted from Haiti

Who is the new US supreme court judge?

Her views on abortion, healthcare and faith

What cases are coming up for Justice Barrett?

Justice Barrett could cast a decisive vote in a number of looming cases, including a Trump-backed challenge to the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, on 10 November.

A previous ruling by Justice Barrett on Obamacare has alarmed advocates of the healthcare programme.

And her past writings on abortion have triggered liberal warnings that the 1973 Supreme Court decision which legalised abortion nationwide could be overruled.

Also coming up on the top court’s docket are decisions on deadlines for accepting postal ballots in the critical presidential election states of North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

Raising the stakes on Monday, the Supreme Court rejected a request to allow postal ballots received beyond election day in Wisconsin, another state through which the electoral road to the White House could lie.

media captionExplaining the Electoral College and which voters will decide who wins

How did Democrats react?

Mr Biden said the “rushed and unprecedented” appointment served as a “stark reminder to every American that your vote matters”.

“While panicked and erratic in mishandling the pandemic, Donald Trump has been crystal clear on one thing for the past four years… he wants to tear down the Affordable Care Act in its entirety,” he said.

Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris said Justice Barrett’s confirmation was “a disgrace, not only because of what she will do when she gets on the bench, but because of the entire process”.

Democrats argued for weeks that it should be up to the winner of the 3 November election to pick the nominee for the Supreme Court vacancy.

But Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell said on Monday: “We don’t have any doubt, do we, that if the shoe was on the other foot, they’d be confirming. You can’t win them all, and elections have consequences.”

Back in 2016, Republicans refused to hold hearings for a Supreme Court nominee appointed by then-President Barack Obama, arguing the decision should not be made in an election year.

Democrats have threatened to retaliate for Judge Barrett’s appointment by court-packing – which would entail expanding the number of justices on the nine-seat Supreme Court – if they win the White House and control of the Senate next week.

Mr Biden has refused to make clear whether he favours such a step, which could transform the third branch of US government. Mr Biden said last week he would appoint a bipartisan commission to study whether an overhaul of the judiciary was necessary.

On Monday night, the left-wing of his party called for the more radical move. “Expand the court,” tweeted self-described democratic socialist New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

The former Democratic leader of the Senate, Harry Reid, is meanwhile pressing Mr Biden to go for the so-called nuclear option and scrap the filibuster if Democrats are victorious next week.

A filibuster is a delaying tactic for legislation – sometimes called “talking a bill to death” – which allows senators to speak on any topic they like for as long as they like unless at least 60 senators vote to stop them. Scrapping it would instead mean a simple majority of 51 could bring the debate to a close.

When Democrats led the Senate, Mr Reid ended the filibuster for federal judicial nominees. Then, when Republicans took control, Mr McConnell went a step further by scrapping the procedure for Supreme Court nominees.

Battle over Supreme Court

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