The president plans to nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the high court, barring a last-minute change of plans.
, the 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide. She also has expressed a broad view of the 2nd Amendment’s right to bear arms, potentially providing a vote to strike down some state or local gun restrictions.
Democrats are particularly incensed that McConnell is moving ahead with the current nomination after he refused to hold hearings or a vote ahead of the 2016 presidential election for Merrick Garland, President Obama’s pick to replace Justice Antonin Scalia. At the time, he argued that voters should have a say in the future of the court.
Like Scalia, she is considered an originalist, a philosophy whose adherents believe they are upholding the founders’ original intent when interpreting the Constitution and cast a skeptical eye on later, more expansive interpretations of rights.A professor at Notre Dame Law School, she was nominated by Trump in 2017 to serve on the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, which hears cases from Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin.
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