Students are excited to see Judge Amy Coney Barrett's name nominated for the Supreme Court in a move that will shake up the exclusively Ivy League bench.
President Donald Trump's official nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett excited more than just evangelicals and supporters of the pro-life movement on Saturday. The nomination of a non–Ivy League judge to the Supreme Court of the United States is the first in almost four decades.
"For the last couple of decades or so, nominations to the highest court have basically been the exclusive jurisdiction of two schools," another third-year law student Keith Ongeri said."Not only for Notre Dame, but the greater legal community—the pure principal of getting away from that will probably be well received by everyone who's not at Harvard and Yale. A lot of people will be happy to see a little bit of shake up.
Many have argued that the nomination should be made by the winner of November's presidential election—stance taken, and since reversed, by a number of prominent Republicans when Justice Antonin Scalia died nine months before the 2016 election. Although students are generally supportive of Barrett's nomination, Notre Dame isn't entirely insulated from the political discourse that has challenged who should be the one to name Ginsburg's successor.
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