Donald Trump is expected to name judge Amy Coney Barrett to the nine-member bench of the US Supreme Court in a bid to fill up the vacancy created after Judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg died last Friday due to complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer at the age of 87. The conservative federal appeals court judge is known for her conservative religious views.

Trump said on Saturday that he will announce his Supreme Court nominee at the Rose Garden of the White House Barrett, 48, is currently a judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, for which she was nominated by the president back in 2017. The US Senate confirmed her nomination by 55-43 votes.

The media reports imply the president is still likely to change his mind between now and the impending announcement. Barrett's conservative religious views make her the favorite choice of conservative Christians who plan to reverse the historical decision in which the Court ruled that the country's Constitution protects pregnant women choose to have an abortion without any sort of excessive government restriction.

Aside from that, she has strong support from conservative GOP senators, including her home-state senator, Mike Braun from Indiana, The Hill reported. “He (Trump) has made his decision and it is Barrett,” an official confirmed, while recently surfaced media reports suggest Trump has already started informing his allies on Capitol Hill.

The president reported met with Barrett at the White House earlier this week. Nominations to the Supreme Court are particularly significant because the judges are appointed for a lifetime, without a retirement age unlike other top courts of the world.

Trump is moving forward with the nomination, ignoring a strong opposition from the Democrats. The Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden insists that the nomination should be done by the next president of the United States.

Trump, on the other hand, claims it is his constitutional duty to ensure the vacancy on the US Supreme Court is filled up. After justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, Barrett would be Trump's third nominee during the first term of his presidency.

"She was the plan all along," former senior administration official familiar with the process told CNN. The official describes her as a distinguished and qualified candidate by traditional measures.

Furthermore, the official said she has the strongest support among the legal conservatives who have dedicated their lives to the court. Barrett will be primarily contributing to the court’s jurisprudence in the years and decades to come, the official added.