Amy Coney Barrett is said to be “hostile” to LGBTQ rights America’s leading LGBTQ rights group has rejected Amy Coney Barrett as President Donald Trump’s nominee to fill the empty seat in the US Supreme Court. On Saturday, Trump confirmed speculation that he would choose the 48-year old New Orleans-born lawyer, jurist, and academic to take the position left vacant after the recent death of civil rights-supporting justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
As a known conservative, Barrett’s appointment will see the Supreme Court lean towards the right. The powerful role is a position for life, which means that if confirmed by Congress, Barrett could have many decades of influence as one of the nine justices of the country’s highest court.