As the parent of seven children, Amy Coney Barrett knows about working with a large group: it is an experience she will have again if confirmed as the ninth justice on the U.S. Supreme Court - and its first mother with school-age children.
U.S President Donald Trump poses with U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett and her family at an event to announce her as his nominee to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on September 18, at the White House in Washington, U.S., September 26, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
“The president has asked me to become the ninth justice, and as it happens I’m used to being in a group of nine, my family,” Barrett said. The country’s first look at the Barrett, however, was as a parent with cooking challenges who, with her husband, has been “co-principals of the Barrett e-learning academy” at home during the coronavirus pandemic.
Barrett caught Trump’s attention in her 2017 confirmation fight to become an appeals court judge, when she was engaged in a back and forth with Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein about her Catholic religion.Barrett’s strong defense left a “favorable impression” on Trump, who admired her toughness, a source familiar with Trump’s thinking said.
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