Amy Coney Barrett
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Amy Vivian Coney Barrett is an American lawyer and jurist serving since 2020 as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The fifth woman to serve on the court, she was nominated
Official portrait, 2021
Judge Laurence Silberman, for whom Barrett first clerked after law school, swearing her in at her investiture for the Seventh Circuit in 2018
President Donald Trump nominated Barrett to the Supreme Court on September 26, 2020.
Justice Clarence Thomas administers the oath of office to Barrett on October 26, 2020, at the White House alongside President Donald Trump.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was nominated by Presiden
Amy Coney Barrett
…to teach civil procedure, constitutional law, and statutory interpretation. On September 26, 2020, shortly after United States Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death, Trump nominated Barrett to succeed her. Her nomination was controversial because the 2020 presidential election was only 38 days away and…
Official portrait, 2016
Ginsburg in 1959, wearing her Columbia Law School academic regalia
Ginsburg in 1977, photographed by Lynn Gilbert
Ginsburg in 1981