The United States Senate has confirmed Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court a week before the Presidential Election.
Republicans voted 52-48 to approve the judge, thereby overcoming the Democrats.
Barrett took the oath of office at the White House alongside President Trump. Her appointment seals for the foreseeable future a 6-3 conservative majority in the top US Judicial Body.
The 48 year-old is the third appointed by the Republican President, after Neil Gorsuch in 2017 and Brett Kavanaugh in 2018.
“She is one of our Nation’s most brilliant legal scholars and she will make an outstanding Justice on the highest court of our Land”, Trump Said.
At the event, the oath of office was administered by Justice Clarence Thomas.
Barrett fills the vacancy left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died last month.
