5 hours agoBig win for Trump and conservatives: Amy Coney Barrett confirmed at Supreme Court
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)The US Senate has confirmed Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court in a big victory for President Donald Trump and American conservatives just one week before the presidential election. Republicans all voted and thus the result in the Senate was 52-48 to approve the judge, exceeding the unified opposition of the Democrats. [...]
Republicans all voted and thus the result in the Senate was 52-48 to approve the judge, exceeding the unified opposition of the Democrats.
Its assignment stamps the conservative majority in the highest U.S. judiciary.
The Democrat candidate for president of the United States, Joe Biden, named this decision as hasty and unprecedented, writes the BBC, translates Periscope.
Judge Barrett, 48, published in the White House by President Trump.
Only a Republican senator, Susan Collins, who is facing a fierce battle for re-election in this position in Maine, voted against the president's nomination. /Periscope
