AMY Coney Barrett is the Supreme Court Justice who rejected Donald Trump’s last-gasp attempt to postpone his criminal sentencing days before his Inauguration. Trump is due to be sentenced on January 10, 2025 for illegally using campaign funds to pay hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels - but who is the woman who made the decision?.
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Amy Coney Barrett was born in 1972 and raised in New Orleans. She is the eldest child of seven siblings. Her father worked as an attorney for Shell Oil Company. She earned her undergraduate degree in English literature in 1994 at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn.
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She then graduated from Notre Dame University Law School, and clerked for conservative icon Justice Antonin Scalia. Barrett was one of the leading choices for the role of Supreme Court Justice following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a feminist icon and the second woman to ever serve on the nation's highest court.
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She was nominated by President Trump on Saturday, September 26, 2020. He said at a rally in North Carolina he would choose a female as his pick for the next Supreme Court justice, and described Barrett as "very highly respected.". Barrett is a devout Catholic. She previously said “life begins at conception,” according to a 2013 Notre Dame Magazine article.
She is reportedly a member of People of Praise - a small, tightly knit Christian group. She is strongly anti-abortion. She is an originalist, arguing that the Constitution should be interpreted based on the original understanding of its founders, and has advocated for a strict interpretation of the text.
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