Daily Mail: 'His philosophy is mine too': Judge Amy Coney Barrett says she will 'apply the law as written' like her mentor Justice Scalia as she formally accepts Trump's SCOTUS nomination in front of her family at the White House
* President Donald Trump officially nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to serve on the United States Supreme Court
* President Trump made the announcement in the White House Rose Garden on Saturday afternoon
* Barrett has been a judge since 2017, when Trump nominated her to the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
* A longtime University of Notre Dame law professor, she had already established herself as a reliable conservative in the mold of Antonin Scalia, for whom she clerked in the late 1990s
* Conservatives heralded the pick of Barrett as heir-apparent of Justice Antonin Scalia who died in Feb 2016
* Barrett clerked for conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in 1998 and 1999
* Like Scalia, Barrett considers herself an 'originalist' and interprets the Constitution as she believes the authors had intended it during their own lives
* Barrett was accompanied by her husband Jesse and her seven kids
* The president has the votes in the Senate to push his Supreme Court pick through, but the move is controversial because of the closeness of the 2020 election
President Donald Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Saturday, capping a dramatic reshaping of the federal judiciary that will resonate for a generation and that he hopes will provide a needed boost to his reelection effort.
Barrett, a judge on the Chicago-based 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals and a devout Roman Catholic, has been hailed by religious conservatives and others on the right as an ideological heir to conservative stalwart Antonin Scalia, the late Supreme Court justice for whom she clerked.
Barrett said she was 'truly humbled' by the nomination and quickly aligned herself with Scalia's conservative approach to the law, saying his 'judicial philosophy is mine, too.'
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WNU Editor: She says that she will base her rulings on what the framers of the US constitution wanted. We shall see.
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