The serving U.S. Court of Appeals judge is considered the frontrunner to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last week.
Barrett, 48, is a devout Catholic and popular choice among religious conservatives, having written in a 2013 article that she was not opposed to overturning court precedents in defence of the constitution. That has been interpreted as an approach that places the Roe vs. Wade judgement in potential peril.
She was nominated by Trump to sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the seventh circuit, a jurisdiction that covers Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin., 52, is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, having formerly sat as the first Cuban-American woman on Florida's Supreme Court. However her fortunes were reported to be fading after concerns were raised that she had not been previously vetted for the Supreme Court and doing so in such a short timeframe would prove difficult, according to CNN.They are among five female candidates Trump is considering for the role. He is expected to announce his pick on Saturday., who died from pancreatic cancer last Friday, with just weeks to go before the presidential election.
Efforts to fill the Supreme Court vacancy come despite previous comments by senior Republicans that the process of selecting a justice should be delayed in the final year of a presidency until after the election.
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