ET 2020 Live Updates: Confirmation Battle Looms as Trump Picks Amy Coney Barrett for Supreme Court President Trump appeared with Judge Barrett, a deeply conservative jurist, at a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, kicking off an election-season confirmation fight unlike any in American history. Judge Amy Coney Barrett is President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court. Image Judge Amy Coney Barrett before President Trump announced her as his Supreme Court nominee on Saturday at the White House. “Today it is my honor to nominate one of our nation’s most brilliant and gifted legal minds to the Supreme Court,” Mr. Trump said. Now that Mr. Trump has announced his selection of Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the court’s open seat, what comes next?

Source: New York Times September 26, 2020 12:01 UTC