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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Sep 28, 2020

President Donald Trump announced Saturday he will nominate federal appeals court Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Washington Post reports. Barrett, 48, would fill the vacancy left by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said yesterday that confirmation hearings will start Oct. 12 with opening statements by committee members, followed by two days of questioning on Oct. 13 and 14. The committee would then begin its deliberations on Oct. 15 with a vote on the nominee coming as early as Oct. 22. Barrett, who clerked for former justice Antonin Scalia, has already been through one confirmation hearing. President Trump nominated her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in 2017. She won Senate confirmation to that seat by a vote of 55 to 43, with three Democrats supporting her appointment.