{"id":231593,"date":"2020-09-26T16:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T21:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=231593"},"modified":"2020-09-28T16:19:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T21:19:33","slug":"trump-nominates-amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/trump-nominates-amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump nominates pro-life, Catholic Judge Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today, President Donald Trump announced his pick to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Amy Coney Barrett has been a leading choice for Trump and met with the president at the White House on Monday, the only potential nominee to do so,\u00a0according to CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Barrett currently sits on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. When she was nominated for that court in 2017, Planned Parenthood submitted<\/a> a formal letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee opposing her nomination and calling her “dangerous to the health care of people across the country.”<\/p>\n

“Today it is my honor to nominate one of our nation’s most gifted and brilliant legal minds to the Supreme court,” said Trump. “She is a woman of unparalleled achievement, towering intellect, sterling credentials, and unyielding loyalty to the Constitution, Judge Amy Coney Barrett.”<\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 26: Seventh U.S. Circuit Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett looks on while being introduced by U.S. President Donald Trump as his nominee to the Supreme Court during an event in the Rose Garden at the White House September 26, 2020 in Washington, DC. With 38 days until the election, Trump tapped Barrett to be his third Supreme Court nominee in just four years and to replace the late Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Tuesday. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

Barrett has a brief but consistent record in support of life. In 2016, Barrett voted<\/a>\u00a0in favor of rehearing a 2016 case regarding an Indiana law that required aborted babies to be buried or cremated after some judges determined the law to be unconstitutional. The case was later heard by the Supreme Court, which upheld the law. Ginsburg was the sole justice to write<\/a> a dissent to that ruling.<\/p>\n

Barrett also voted to rehear a case regarding a law that would have banned abortions because of the baby’s sex, race, or disability, a law of which she was in favor.\u00a0In 2017, in the case of Box v. Planned Parenthood<\/em> of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc., Barrett joined dissenters in support of the Indiana law requiring doctors to notify the parents of minors seeking abortions.<\/p>\n

“The president has nominated me to serve on the United States Supreme Court and that institution belongs to all of us. If confirmed, I would not assume that role for the sake of those in my own circle, and certainly not for my own sake,” said Barrett. “I would assume this role to serve you. I would discharge the judicial oath, which requires me to administer justice without respect to persons, do equal right to the poor and rich, and faithfully and impartially discharge my duties under the United States Consitution.”<\/p>\n

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