BREAKING: President Trump names Judge Amy Coney Barrett as U.S. Supreme Court nominee at White House ceremony.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump officially named Justice Amy Coney Barrett as his Supreme Court nominee in a White House event Saturday afternoon, setting up a contentious nomination fight in the final few weeks of the"Today it is my honor to nominate one of our nation's most brilliant and gifted legal minds to the Supreme Court. She is a woman of unparalleled achievement, towering intellect, sterling credentials and unyielding loyalty to the Constitution," Trump said.
The family of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, a leading voice of conservative jurisprudence who Barrett clerked for in the 1990s, attended the nominating event on Saturday. Evangelist Franklin Graham, Attorney General Bill Barr, Republican Senators Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, and Josh Hawley of Missouri, among others, were also seated in the Rose Garden for the announcement.
, would be the court's sixth Catholic justice and would also be Trump's third appointee, joining Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh., one of the court's most outspoken liberals who died eight days ago at 87. Republican leaders in the Senate have said they have the votes to confirm Barrett's nomination this year, likely. That would give Barrett less than 40 days to undergo an updated FBI background check and for the Senate Judiciary Committee to hold a hearing and a committee vote — all necessary steps in the confirmation process.
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