Trump Confirms Barrett's Supreme Court Nomination at Flag-bedecked Rose Garden

President Donald Trump has confirmed his nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett in a ceremony designed to mimic the 1993 nomination of Justice Ruth Baden Ginsburg's nomination.

Trump confirmed Barrett's nomination as Ginsburg's replacement on Saturday, September 26, at the White House's flag-bedecked Rose Garden.

The president followed true on his promise of announcing his U.S. Supreme Court nominee this weekend after Ginsburg's memorial services.

Ginsburg succumbed to pancreatic cancer on September 18. She was 87 years old.

Trump called his nomination of Barrett as a very proud moment. He called the conservative federal appeals court judge as a woman of towering intellect with unyielding loyalty to the Constitution and who would rule based solely on the fair reading of the law.

Trump, who is seeking reelection on November 3, told Barrett that he had looked and studied and decided that she was very eminently qualified to occupy the High Court seat. He also told her that she was going to be fantastic.

The president also declared to the audience of Barrett's nomination, which included the widow of late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Republican senators. The judge is one of the nation's most brilliant and gifted legal minds.

Barrett had clerked for Scalia when he was still in the Supreme Court.

In response, the 48-year-old Barrett said that if she would be confirmed into the lifetime appointment, she would not assume the role of a Supreme Court Justice for the sake of those in her circle and certainly not for her own sake as well.

Barrett said she would assume the role of serving the public. She also added that a judge must apply the law as written and that judges are not policymakers.

Confirmation hearings for Barrett's nomination at the Senate Judiciary Committee will be on October 12. According to an aide, who is not authorized to speak on the record, the hearings will have the same format as the recent ones.

This means it could last four days from opening statements to questions and testimony from outside witnesses.

Trump was said to have had between four to five women judges on his list, but Barrett has emerged as the top favorite after meeting with the White House president.

She was one of the finalists when Brett Kavanaugh became a Supreme Court Justice in 2018.

Should Barrett be confirmed, she will be the first justice to be confirmed so close to a presidential election.

Barrett's confirmation though, will usher in a new battle between the Republicans and the Democrats who were adamant that Ginsburg should only be replaced after the November election.

It was Ginsburg's dying wish, according to her granddaughter, that she only be replaced after the election and by a new president. The Democrats had vowed to honor this wish. They had argued that such a lifetime appointment should only be made by whoever wins the upcoming election.

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