President Trump’s nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the Supreme Court seat made vacant by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is seen as a home run for conservatives. It is a chance to move the high court in a far more aggressively conservative direction for generations.
In political terms, Barrett is the dream candidate for conservative Republicans, and the nightmare candidate for Democrats.
For Republicans, the 48-year-old judge is a young and personally unassailable nominee. A devout Catholic, she is the mother of seven, including a child with Down syndrome and two children she and her husband, Jesse Barrett, adopted from Haiti. She is beloved in her community and by her students at Notre Dame Law School where she taught for 15 years; she was voted best professor three times and still teaches part-time at the school.
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