Trump remakes Supreme Court as Senate confirms Amy Coney Barrett

Published 10/26/2020, 08:17 PM
Updated 10/27/2020, 05:35 AM
© Reuters. U.S. President Donald Trump holds a campaign event, in Lititz, Pennsylvania

By Lawrence Hurley and Susan Cornwell

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-led U.S. Senate handed President Donald Trump a major pre-election political victory on Monday by confirming his Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett as he delivered a dramatic conservative overhaul of the nation's top judicial body.

The Senate voted largely along party lines to confirm Barrett to a lifetime post, overcoming unified Democratic opposition to the Republican president's third Supreme Court appointment and creating a 6-3 conservative majority.

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Senate holds confirmation hearing for Amy Coney Barrett to be Supreme Court Justice

Barrett's addition cements one of the most right-leaning Supreme Court rosters in generations. The shifting of the Supreme Court and the broader federal judiciary to the right has been a signature achievement of Trump's presidency, aided by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

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