Trump picks Barrett as he moves to tilt US Supreme Court rightward

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[WASHINGTON] President Donald Trump on Saturday nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, and she pledged to become a justice in the mold of the late staunch conservative Antonin Scalia, setting another milestone in Mr Trump's rightward shift of the top US judicial body. Read more at The Business Times.

"His judicial philosophy is mine too: a judge must apply the law as written. Judges are not policymakers," Ms Barrett said.

An emboldened Supreme Court conservative majority could shift the United States to the right on hot-button issues by, among other things, curbing abortion rights, expanding religious rights, striking down gun control laws, halting the expansion of LGBT rights, and endorsing new restrictions on voting rights.

Mr Trump said Ms Barrett would be the first mother of school-age children ever on the court. Along with her lawyer husband, her children, two of whom were adopted from Haiti, were in the audience. "The Senate should not act on this vacancy until after the American people select their next president and the next Congress," Mr Biden said.

 

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