A michael oak who glad to have you with us we begin with a Major Political fight in the u. S. Over the vacant seat on the Supreme Court u. S. Media reports say President Donald Trump will nominate Amy Kone Barrett to fill that seat she would replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died last week verite currently serves as a federal Appeals Court judge and is known for her conservative religious views trump told journalists on friday he had made up his mind but he refused to confirm the speculation ahead of an official announcement on saturday. For more im joined by Irwin Collier professor at Board College in berlin and its really nice to have you with us. What do we know about any county buried in essence. What effect would she have on the Supreme Court to start probably with the most important she is 48 years old which means with good health she could be around for a long time and she clerked after law school with Anthony ScaliaJustice Antonin Scalia scale you who was a very conservative justice one of the originalist so. Shes part of the school of jurisprudence in the United States that believes you have to 2nd guess what the founders and authors of the constitution would have said had they lived in 2020. So it if they put a very conservative spin on what she does shes been an appeals judge since 1970 it was a very controversial hearing but split completely on party lines she was approved before that she was a professor of law at the university of notre dame and perhaps the most interesting for the politics she is firmly in the antiabortion side of the debate and as a very conservative catholic catholicism dominates the Supreme Court she would be the 6th Catholic Justice of the Supreme Court right now but that by itself doesnt tell you much because as everyone knows a religion like that goes from sotomayor all the way to judge barrett so the concern is the chief justice will no longer be the swing vote in coming elections that its clearly part of the plan at thats clearly planning if she is in fact trumps nomination how likely is she to actually get that seat i mean the republicans certainly have the numbers barring unforeseen. Skeletons in her closet in which strikes me as unlikely given that shes already been through a pretty serious vetting