Donald Trump made his choice and announced it solemnly this Saturday from the rose garden of the White House: the conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett has been appointed to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Supreme Court of the United States, in a climate of extreme divisions 38 days before the presidential election.
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If this choice is validated as expected by the Senate, with a Republican majority, this practicing 48-year-old Catholic opposed to abortion will strengthen the conservative majority within this key institution after the death of the progressive “RBG”, a feminist icon. died of cancer last week.
The Supreme Court would then have only three progressive judges out of its nine magistrates.
And the former real estate magnate will have appointed, a rare occurrence, three supreme judges in a single mandate.
Despite the Democratic outcry, the upper house could even decide before the presidential election.
His presidential opponent Joe Biden and the entire Democratic camp are upset, arguing that it should be up to the winner on November 3 to make such a decisive choice for American society, since the highest court decides on ultra-sensitive issues, such as abortion or the right to bear arms.
The subject will undoubtedly be Tuesday night at the heart of the first televised debate of the campaign between Joe Biden, favorite in the polls, and Donald Trump, who is partly relying on this sequence to catch up.
The choice of Amy Coney Barrett, mother of seven, law professor and magistrate known for her traditionalist religious convictions, could galvanize the conservative Christian electorate on which Donald Trump relied heavily in his surprise election there. four years.
"ACB", as some media call it, was already one of the favorites in 2018 for the Supreme Court when the president finally preferred Judge Brett Kavanaugh.