Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court nomination
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On September 26, 2020, President Donald Trump announced the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the position of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to fill in the vacancy left by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. At the time of her nomination, Barrett was a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, Illinois. The Senate received word from the president on September 29.
President Trump with Amy Coney Barrett and her family just prior to Barrett being announced as his nominee to the Supreme Court (September 26th, 2020)
Amy Coney Barrett speaks in the Rose Garden after being officially nominated by President Trump, September 26, 2020
Barrett with then Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, September 29, 2020
Barrett with former Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, Iowa
Amy Coney Barrett
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Amy Vivian Coney Barrett is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The fifth woman to serve on the court, she was nominated by President Donald Trump and has served since October 27, 2020. Barrett was a U.S. circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 2017 to 2020.
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