Amy Coney Barrett ‘most qualified’ for top court: Ex-Trump aide

US President Donald Trump should fill the Supreme Court vacant seat despite polls showing most Americans want the winner of the November elections to nominate the new judge, according to former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer. “If you govern by polls, that’s one thing. But I can tell you as a conservative, as a Republican, I want him to fill that seat and fill it ASAP,” Spicer told Malika Bilal, host of Al Jazeera’s show We Need to Talk. “The reality is that there is a vacancy and it is the responsibility of the president of the United States to nominate someone for that vacancy. That is the law. That’s what supposed to happen in America.” Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett, a favourite of conservatives, to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died on September 18 at the age of 87. Barrett was grilled by the Senate Judiciary Committee this week. A Washington Post poll released this week shows 52 percent of Americans want the 2020 election winner to fill the seat, while 44 percent want Trump to fill the seat now. Spicer said based on the recently concluded US Senate confirmation hearings, Barrett was “one of the most impressive and qualified justices I’ve ever seen in action”. style="width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; right: 0; left: 0;">