Amy Coney Barrett (born January 28, 1972) is an American judge. Barrett is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since October 26, 2020. She was nominated by President Donald Trump. She was the United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 2017 until 2020.
Before, she served as the Diane and M.O. Miller Research Chair of Law and Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School.
Supreme Court
Nomination
Barrett was on President Trump's "shortlist" of potential Supreme Court nominees since 2017. She was seen as a possible replacement for then-retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Shortly after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2020, she was seen as the top choice to replace her. On September 26, President Trump nominated her to replace Ginsburg.
Tenure
On October 26, 2020, the Senate confirmed Barrett to the Supreme Court by a vote of 52–48.
Landmark decisions
On June 24, 2022, Barrett was one of the judges who voted to strike down Roe v. Wade in a 5-4 decision. Roe vs. Wade is a decision of 1973, that said that a Textas law on abortion violated a woman's constitutional right to decide whether to continue or end a pregnancy. With this decision gone, regulating abortion is now up to the states.
References
Other websites
by the Notre Dame Law School
Law schools play prominently in Trump's judicial nominations, law.com; accessed May 2, 2018. Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees for the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
1972 births
Living people
Lawyers from New Orleans
American Roman Catholics
Politicians from Washington, D.C. Politicians from New Orleans American judges United States Supreme Court justices
