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A shadow hung over the hearing of Judge Amy Coney Barrett by the Senate Judicial Affairs Committee on Tuesday, October 13. For the first of two days devoted to questions from elected officials, the name of President Donald Trump returned with insistence. He forced the conservative judge to try to distance herself from whoever appointed her on September 26.
Three days earlier, on September 23, the tenant of the Oval Office had justified his decision to appoint a judge so close to the presidential election to replace feminist icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg with his belief that the poll, ” rigged According to him by the Democrats, would end with litigation before the courts. “ I think it will end in the Supreme Court He said, as in the controversial 2000 election which opposed Republican George W. Bush to Democrat Al Gore.
” I think having a 4-4 situation [un partage des huit juges actuels en poste en deux blocs qui se neutraliseraient] is not a good situation (…) but just in case it should be more political than it should be, I think it is very important to have a ninth judge “He assured, suggesting that the President of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, however appointed by a Republican president, could rally the last three judges appointed by Democrats.
Recalling that the president had chosen her obviously hoping that she would rule in his favor in the case of such a dispute, the Democratic senators invited Amy Coney Barrett to announce in advance that she would recuse herself in such circumstances. ” I certainly hope that everyone on this committee will have confidence in my integrity instead of thinking that I would let myself be used as a pawn in deciding this election for the American people. », Retorted the judge by refusing to make such a commitment.
The same presidential shadow weighed on the questions concerning the health reform bequeathed by Barack Obama or the judgment Roe v. Wade – which enshrined the right to abortion in 1973. In both cases, Donald Trump publicly assured that he expected the Supreme Court shaped by his successive appointments to remove them. Each time, the judge argued for her independence.
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