{"id":233489,"date":"2020-10-26T19:11:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T00:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=233489"},"modified":"2020-10-26T19:20:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T00:20:54","slug":"amy-coney-barrett-confirmed-supreme-court-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/amy-coney-barrett-confirmed-supreme-court-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Coney Barrett confirmed as next U.S. Supreme Court Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The U.S. Senate voted tonight 52-48 to confirm Amy Coney Barrett<\/a> to the Supreme Court. Barrett will be the fifth woman in U.S. history to serve on the Court, and succeeds the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who passed away on September 18 after serving 27 years on the Court.<\/p>\n

Justice Barrett graduated summa cum laude from Notre Dame Law School, and clerked for the late Justice Antonin Scalia, a well-known Constitutional “Originalist<\/a>” who passed away in 2016.<\/p>\n

Since 2010, Barrett has taught Notre Dame Law School as the Diane and M.O. Miller II Research Chair of Law, receiving a \u201cdistinguished professor of the year\u201d award in 2010 and 2016.\u00a0In 2017, Barrett was appointed by President Trump to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. In her confirmation hearings before the U.S. Senate, Senator Diane Feinstein expressed concerns Barrett, a practicing Catholic, might favor overruling Roe v. Wade<\/em>, telling Barrett, “the dogma lives loudly within you.”<\/p>\n

Barrett’s Catholic beliefs and pro-life views were again raised as a concern during her recent Senate hearings<\/a>. Several senators questioned Barrett’s decision to sign a\u00a02006 open letter<\/a>\u00a0as she came out of church, which opposed abortion on demand and defended the right to life. Barrett also becomes the sixth Catholic<\/a>\u00a0currently serving on the Court, in addition to Justice Neil Gorsuch who was raised Catholic but now attends Protestant services.<\/p>\n