US President Donald Trump's latest Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, would give the nine-member court six conservative justices - if she is confirmed by the Senate.
A practicing Catholic, Judge Barrett has given rulings and written legal articles indicating her opposition to abortion rights.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-choice organization, ten states have legislated so-called trigger bans that would outlaw all or most abortions if Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court.There are two cases related to abortion rights before the Supreme Court, one of which challenges a 2018 Mississippi ban on abortions from 15 weeks.
“Mostly I'm looking for somebody that can interpret the constitution as written … and she is very strong on that.”Judge Barrett is Mr Trump's third Supreme Court appointee in his first term in office. The US Supreme Court bench as seen in 2018. If Amy Coney Barrett replaced Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg the court would have a 6-3 conservative bias.Mr Trump has said both judges were picked because of their conservative, textualist views on the US constitution, with the nominations preserving the court’s 5-4 conservative balance under President Barack Obama.
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