Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court has handed an advantage to President Donald Trump a week before the election due to her appeal to social conservatives on issues such as abortion and gay marriage.Her appointment to fill the spot left vacant following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on September 18 came in the teeth of opposition from Democrats and seals the conservative majority on the top U.S.
judicial body at 6-3.Barrett had served as a judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals from October 31, 2017 and had worked as a professor of law at the University of Notre Dame from 2002 to 2017.