Trump nominates judge Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court

United States President Donald Trump has nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, the president said Saturday, in a highly anticipated announcement that sets up a political showdown between Republicans and Democrats in the Senate. Barrett, 48, is a constitutional scholar and conservative jurist who Trump named to the federal appeals bench in 2017. Her nomination comes just over a week after the death of longtime Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a staunch liberal, on September 18. “Today it is my honour to nominate one of our nation’s most brilliant and gifted legal minds to the Supreme Court,” Trump said at a Rose Garden event that was attended by Barrett, her husband and their seven children. “She is a woman of unparalleled achievement, towering intellect, sterling credentials and unyielding loyalty to the constitution, Judge Amy Coney Barrett.” style="width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; right: 0; left: 0;">