Christian and social conservative leaders are applauding President Trump’s selection of Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court vacancy, calling her highly qualified and saying she could swing the court in a direction more favorable to their causes.
Barrett, currently a justice for the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, would replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg and become Trump’s third justice appointed to the high court. It would be the most Supreme Court justices appointed by a single president since Richard Nixon.
She formerly was a law professor at the University of Notre Dame.
Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, noted that Barrett clerked for the late Justice Antonin Scalia – a legal hero to the Right – and made legal arguments at Notre Dame “that conservatives have been looking for and listening” for, for decades.
“Conservative Christians need to understand this: We are looking at a game-changer,” Mohler said during his podcast, The Briefing. “… This is not just another conservative appointment to the Supreme Court.”
Although conservatives had a 5-4 majority on the court prior to Ginsburg’s death, Mohler noted that Chief Justice John Roberts has become a swing vote, siding with the liberal bloc in some cases and with the conservatives in others. A 6-3 conservative majority would make the court “far…
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