Conservative win: Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett
Trump's choice
The name Trump chose to be his nomination for RBG's replacement is a US appeals court judge Amy Coney Barrett. This is not the first time she has been noticed by Trump.
She was earlier nominated to serve as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in May 2017, as a replacement to Judge John Daniel Tinder
Professor to SCJ
Barrett has served as a visiting associate professor and John M. Olin Fellow in Law at George Washington University Law School. She worked at the latter for a year and then returned to her alma mater, Notre Dame Law School, in 2002, where she taught civil procedure, constitutional law, and statutory interpretation.
Handmaid's Tale
It has been speculated that Barrett, along with her husband, is a part of the controversial Christian community called People Of Praise — which shows similarities between Margaret Atwood's novel 'The Handmaid's Tale' that details about male-dominated society. The People of Praise teaches women how to "obey" their husbands.
She has also been criticised for being an active critic of right to abort and same-sex marriage. She was highly criticised for signing a 2015 statement to Catholic bishops endorsing the church’s conservative views on abortion, sexuality, and marriage.
End of an era
After the Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away due to cancer, the US President Donald Trump has been pushing for a replacement of the "Notortious RBG".
Excessive force cases
In her three years as a federal appeals court judge, Amy Coney Barrett has consistently sided with police or prison guards accused of using excessive force, a review of cases she was involved in shows.
Barrett, Republican President Donald Trump's third nominee to the high court, has written opinions or been a part of three-judge panels that have ruled in favor of defendants in 11 of 12 cases in which law enforcement was accused of using excessive force in violation of the US Constitution.
Could benefit oil and gas interests
The addition of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, moving it further rightward, could have significant consequences for US climate change policy and complicate the government's ability to regulate pollution, according to legal experts.
Barrett did not establish much of a record on environmental cases in three years on the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Barrett raised concerns among environmentalists during her confirmation hearing last week by refusing to give her views on climate change and whether human activities were contributing to it. Barrett called it a "very contentious matter of public debate" while environmentalists point to an overwhelming scientific consensus that industrial activity is warming the planet.
)
)
)
)
)