Washington D.C. – On September 26, President Trump announced his pick to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court — Amy Coney Barrett, a 48-year-old judge on Chicago’s Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Republican Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell is targeting the week of October 26 for Coney Barrett’s confirmation, mere days before the presidential election. Amy Coney Barrett was considered for a position on the Supreme Court earlier in Trump’s presidency, but that position went to Justice Brett Kavanagh.
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