Washington: US President Donald Trump plans to nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the nine-member bench of the US Supreme Court to fill up the vacancy following the death of Judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg, sources said on Friday.

Trump has asserted that it is his constitutional duty to fill up the vacancy on the US Supreme Court. After justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, Barrett would be Trump’s third nominee in the first term of his presidency. Nominations to the Supreme Court carry a lot of significance as the judges are appointed for lifetime and they do not have a retirement age unlike other apex courts of the world, including the Indian Supreme Court, Said Trump.

Barrett also served as a visiting associate professor and John M Olin Fellow in Law at the George Washington University Law School, and as a visiting associate professor of law at the University of Virginia. Barrett received her BA in English literature, magna cum laude, from Rhodes College and her JD, summa cum laude, from the Notre Dame University Law School, where she served as the executive editor of the Notre Dame Law Review.