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President Trump has announced that 48-year-old Circuit Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett is his nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Coney Barrett graduated first in her class at Notre Dame Law School. If confirmed, this makes her the first Notre Dame graduate on the Supreme Court and the only justice who did not attend an Ivy League law school. That alone is a strong argument for confirmation. She clerked for and was a protege of late Justice Antonin Scalia. In 2017, President Trump appointed her to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals from her position as a law professor at her alma mater.