Amy Coney Barrett Confirmed to U.S. Supreme Court fulfilling another Trump Promise and giving Conservatives a 6-3 Majority
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will administer the official constitutional oath to Judge Amy Coney Barrett on Monday night when she is confirmed by the Senate, a senior White House official told Fox News.
Thomas has long been considered one of the more conservative justices on the Court, along with Barrett's mentor, the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
The would-be celebration of her confirmation won't be a large affair, President Trump said, noting that it will be "just a very nice event."
What does Appointment of Amy Coney Barrett mean to We the People?
Trump made those comments to reporters on Monday at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, Politico reported. The president has been holding rallies in the swing state as part of a final push to win support for next week's election.
Barrett's confirmation, which is expected to take place on Monday evening, will mark his third successful appointment to the high court within his first term. The highly contentious process has provoked backlash from Democrats, who claim Republicans hypocritically jammed her nomination through after rejecting Judge Merrick Garland's in 2016.
"Politics is not a game of influence, it is a game of force, with which you must be able to pass your policies regardless of your political opposition. Conservatives just did that by electing President Trump in 2016 and a Republican Senate that did what they said they would do. Yes, elections have consequences and none will have more consequences that this 2020 election." - Tom Zawistowski, President, We the People Convention
“This is something to be really proud of and feel good about,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said during a rare weekend session Sunday ahead of voting. He scoffed at the “apocalyptic” warnings from critics that the judicial branch was becoming mired in partisan politics, even as he declared that “they won’t be able to do much about this for a long time to come.”
"Through an originalist judiciary, the Court would cede back power to the legislature, and return to the constitutional balance of power under which the Supreme Court is meant to be the least powerful of the three branches of government, only intervening when laws are clearly in conflict with the plain meaning of the Constitution."
