With the advice and consent of the United States Senate, the President of the United States appoints the members of the Supreme Court of the United States, which is the highest court of the federal ju
Judge Neil Gorsuch, his wife Louise, and President Donald Trump during the announcement in the East Room of the White House
Judge Brett Kavanaugh and his family with President Donald Trump in 2018
President Donald Trump nominates Judge Amy Coney Barrett in the Rose Garden of the White House.
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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
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…the death of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on September 18, 2020, Trump nominated United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit judge Amy Coney Barrett as her replacement on September 26, 2020. Exactly a month later on October 26, 2020, Barrett was confirmed by a vote of 52–48. The Gorsuch, Kavanaugh…
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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.