Biden again asked the Senate not to rule before the November 3 presidential election on the choice of Amy Coney Barrett for the seat left by Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last week.
“Never in the history of our country has a Supreme Court judge been appointed and placed in the course of a presidential election,” Biden said at a press conference in Wilmington, his hometown of Delaware.
In several states, voting for the election of the next US president has already begun.
“President Trump has been trying for four years to eliminate the Affordable Care Act”, added Joe Biden on the decree of former President Barack Obama who created the so-called Obamacare, when Biden was vice president.
“Now, this administration believes it has suddenly found an opening with the tragic death of Judge Ginsburg,” he added.
Biden recalled that the world is going through its worst health crisis in the last century and, despite that, “the Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to repeal the Accessible Care Act.”
Judge of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeal in Chicago, a devout Catholic who worked with former conservative judge Antonin Scalia, Barrett was “deeply honored” by the confidence shown by Trump at a ceremony in the gardens of the White House.
Barrett will have been on the list of possible nominees in 2018, when Trump chose Brett Kavanaugh to replace Anthony Kennedy.
At 48, if confirmed, Barrett will be the youngest judge in the United States Supreme Court, where the nine elements can remain for life.
Republican senators will do everything now to make Barrett’s confirmation in the Senate, which they dominate, as quick as possible before the November 3 presidential elections, shielding conservative gains in the federal judicial system before a potential power shift.
Trump, for his part, hopes that the appointment of the Catholic judge will bring him electoral gains in the fight with Democrat Joe Biden for the occupation of the White House.
To be confirmed, Barrett will be the sixth of nine members of the Supreme Court to be appointed by a Republican president, and third in Trump’s term.
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