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The confirmation procedure for Amy Coney Barrett, the conservative judge chosen by Donald Trump to replace feminist icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, will add from Monday, October 12 to the tensions of the presidential campaign. The first day will be devoted to a preliminary statement by the judge, which will then be submitted, for two days, to questions from the senators.
The Republican majority decided to rush this confirmation while a majority of people questioned in converging polls would have preferred that the name of the replacement be decided by the president elected on November 3. In 2016, Republicans opposed Democratic President Barack Obama making a similar nomination, arguing that it was an election year.
This precipitation, justified by the desire to consolidate the conservative majority within the highest judicial body in the United States by reducing it from five to six judges (out of nine, all appointed for life) is dramatized by the Covid epidemic -19. The presentation of Judge Barrett, on September 26, in the rose garden of the White House, without respecting the federal recommendations in terms of the fight against the epidemic, transformed the seat of the executive into a hotbed of contamination, probably explaining that of Donald Trump and some of his advisers.
Some of the Republican senators who are members of the Judicial Affairs Committee, which will organize the judge’s hearing, were also present at the White House. Three of them, infected, are in quarantine. Struggling with a complicated re-election, commission chairman South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham on Friday refused to undergo a required virus test before a debate with his Democratic opponent. The debate was canceled. Lindsey Graham doubtless feared that a positive test would complicate the conduct of the hearings.
Another elected official will be particularly followed during this hearing. It is California Democratic Senator Kamala Harris, who is also running mate of presidential candidate Joe Biden. The former prosecutor, who will have to interrupt her own campaign, has distinguished herself on numerous occasions in similar hearings by her ability to push Donald Trump’s nominees to their limits.
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