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		</div><p>Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed as the newest member of the US Supreme Court by a deeply divided Senate on Monday, as Republicans overpowered Democrats to install President Donald Trump’s nominee only days before the election.</p>
<p>Ms Barrett’s confirmation will likely secure a conservative court majority for many years to come.</p>
<p>Mr Trump’s choice to fill the vacancy of the late liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg potentially opens a new era of rulings on issues including abortion, the Affordable Care Act and even the president’s own re-election bid.</p>
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<p>Democrats were unable to stop the confirmation of Mr Trump’s third justice on the court, as Republicans race to reshape the judiciary.</p>
<p>Ms Barrett is 48, and her lifetime appointment as the 115th justice will solidify the court’s conservative tilt.</p>
<figure id="attachment_163813" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-163813" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/4DC0E0CC-E08A-409C-9D72-10493D79176A.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" class="size-full wp-image-163813" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-163813" class="wp-caption-text">President Donald Trump watches as Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas administers the Constitutional Oath to Amy Coney Barrett</figcaption></figure>
<p>“This is a momentous day for America,” Mr Trump said at a primetime swearing-in event on the South Lawn at the White House, where Justice Clarence Thomas administered the Constitutional Oath to Ms Barrett before a crowd of about 200 people.</p>
<p>Ms Barrett told those gathered she believes “it is the job of a judge to resist her policy preferences”, and vowed: “I will do my job without any fear or favour.”</p>
<p>In its timing, Monday’s vote was the closest high court confirmation ever to a presidential election, and the first in modern times with no support from the minority party.</p>
<p>The spiking Covid-19 crisis has hung over the proceedings. Vice President Mike Pence’s office said on Monday he would not preside at the Senate session unless his tie-breaking vote was needed after Democrats asked him to stay away when his aides tested positive for the coronavirus.</p>
<p>The vote was 52-48, and Mr Pence’s vote was not necessary.</p>
<p>“Voting to confirm this nominee should make every single senator proud,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, fending off “outlandish” criticism in a lengthy speech.</p>
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<p>During a rare weekend session, Mr McConnell declared Ms Barrett’s opponents “won’t be able to do much about this for a long time to come”.</p>
<p>Democrats argued for weeks that the vote was being improperly rushed and insisted during an all-night Sunday session it should be up to the winner of the November 3 election to name the nominee.</p>
<p>However, Ms Barrett, a federal appeals court judge from Indiana, is expected to be seated swiftly and begin hearing cases soon.</p>
<p>Speaking near midnight on Sunday, Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren called the vote “illegitimate” and “the last gasp of a desperate party”.</p>
<p>Several matters are awaiting decision just a week before Election Day, and Ms Barrett could be a decisive vote in Republican appeals of orders extending the deadlines for absentee ballots in North Carolina and Pennsylvania.</p>
<p>The justices are also weighing Mr Trump’s emergency plea for the court to prevent the Manhattan District Attorney from acquiring his tax returns.</p>
<p>And on November 10 the court is expected to hear the Trump-backed challenge to the Obama-era Affordable Care Act.</p>
<p>Just before the Senate vote began, the court sided with Republicans in refusing to extend the deadline for absentee ballots in Wisconsin.</p>
<p>Mr Trump has said he wanted to swiftly install a ninth justice to resolve election disputes and is hopeful the justices will end the health law known as “Obamacare”.</p>
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<p>During several days of public testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Ms Barrett was careful not to disclose how she would rule on any such cases.</p>
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<p>She presented herself as a neutral arbiter and suggested, “It’s not the law of Amy”. But her writings against abortion and a ruling on “Obamacare” show a deeply conservative thinker.</p>
<p>Republic senator Lindsey Graham, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, praised the mother of seven as a role model for conservative women, saying: “This is historic.”</p>
<p>Republicans focused on her Catholic faith, criticising earlier Democratic questions about her beliefs. Mr Graham called Ms Barrett “unabashedly pro-life.”</p>
<p>At the start of Mr Trump’s presidency, Mr McConnell engineered a Senate rules change to allow confirmation by a majority of the 100 senators, rather than the 60-vote threshold traditionally needed to advance high court nominees over objections. That was an escalation of a rules change Democrats put in place to advance other court and administrative nominees under President Barack Obama.</p>
<blockquote><p>I do not think it is fair nor consistent to have a Senate confirmation vote prior to the election</p></blockquote>
<pre><code> Republican senator Susan Collins
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<p>Republicans are taking a political plunge by fast-tracking the confirmation just days from the November 3 election with the presidency and their Senate majority at stake.</p>
<p>Only one Republican — Senator Susan Collins, who is in a tight re-election fight in Maine — voted against the nominee, saying: “I do not think it is fair nor consistent to have a Senate confirmation vote prior to the election.”</p>
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<p>Mr Trump and his Republican allies had hoped for a campaign boost, in much the same way Mr Trump generated excitement among conservatives and evangelical Christians in 2016 over a court vacancy.</p>
<p>That year, Mr McConnell refused to allow the Senate to consider then-President Barack Obama’s choice to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia, arguing the new president should decide.</p>
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