Instead, they have focused on making Republicans pay at the ballot box and debated ways to counteract Mr. Trump’s influence on the court if they win the election. Mr. Trump met with Judge Barrett at the White House on Monday and Tuesday and was said to like her personally. Judge Barrett graduated from Notre Dame Law School and later joined the faculty. She has been a judge for only three years, appointed by Mr. Trump to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in 2017. Judge Barrett and her husband, Jesse Barrett, a former federal prosecutor, are reported to be members of a small and relatively obscure Christian group called the People of Praise.

Source: New York Times September 25, 2020 21:29 UTC