WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump's nomination of Mrs Amy Coney Barrett is poised to give the Supreme Court its most conservative female justice in history but is unlikely to accomplish the one thing that could help seal his re-election - a new surge of support from women, a segment of the electorate his campaign has struggled to attract.
The move poses a risk for Mr Trump. Since Mrs Sandra Day O'Connor became the first woman on the court almost 40 years ago, the reaction to Mrs Barrett's appointment and polling data suggests women are looking at a nominee's potential rulings and judicial record as much or more than her gender. "For Donald Trump to win, he needs to close that gap with women," said Ms Sarah Longwell, a Republican strategist who founded Republican Voters Against Trump. The White House seems to think nominating a woman will help them with women voters, she said.
Mrs Ginsburg's death just sharpens that divide, given that most women say they don't believe Mr Trump should fill her seat at all. "The conventional wisdom that the politics of Supreme Court vacancies are more motivating for conservatives - this is not what we see in the data," she said."It's not in the data, not even kind of. It's looking more important for suburban white college-educated women who are liberal."
Mrs Ginsburg became the nation's second female Supreme Court justice when President Bill Clinton appointed her in 1993. She was the court's only woman from 2006, when Mrs O'Connor retired, to 2009, when Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined the court. Justice Elena Kagan was confirmed a year later.
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