The US Senate has confirmed the appointment of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the seat previously held by the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg as an associate justice on the US Supreme Court.
By a vote of 52 to 48, the Republican-controlled US Senate approved US President Donald Trump’s appointment of the 48-year-old Barrett, a federal appeals court judge from Indiana, to become the newest US Supreme Court justice.
The decision gives conservatives on the court a decisive 6-3 majority.
Just over an hour later Barrett was sworn in as Supreme Court Justice in a ceremony at the White House.
“This is something to be really proud of and feel good about,” McConnell said on Sunday, scoffing at fears of a growing politicization of the judicial branch that “they won’t be able to do much about this for a long time to come.”
The September 26 event in the White House Rose Garden at which Trump announced his nomination of Barrett to fill the vacancy left by Ginsburg, who died on September 18 from colon cancer, became a “super-spreader” event after several attendees with COVID-19 passed the disease to at least 34 White House staffers and attendees, according to a memo obtained by ABC News.
The so-called “nuclear option” was used to end a Democratic filibuster blocking confirmation of Trump’s first Supreme Court appointee, Justice Neil Gorsuch.
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