BREAKING: Trump and First Lady accompanied by Amy Coney Barrett and family have arrived in Rose Garden.
Sustained standing ovation and cheering for ACB. Trump is beaming.
Trump recites the letter of clerkship recommendation that her law professor sent on her behalf to Justice Antonio Scalia: “Amy Coney is the best student I ever had.” 
Trump says that, if confirmed, Amy Coney Barrett will make history as the first “mother of school-age children to serve on the court.”
Trump thanks ACB’s children for “sharing your wonderful mother with the country.”
“This should be a straightforward and prompt confirmation,” Trump says. He adds, “good luck!”
Crowd laughs.
Trump adds that she should be “totally non-controversial,” then quips that’s “what we said that the last time.”
Crowd laughs.
Trump adds that she should be “totally non-controversial,” then quips that’s “what we said that the last time.”
ACB: “I love the United States, and I love the United States constitution.”
ACB now praising the late RBG who “not only broke glass ceilings, she smashed them.”
Barrett says of Scalia, “his judicial philosophy is mine.” She adds that “judges are not policy makers.”
Amy Coney Barrett gives a shoutout to each of her seven children. Later she adds that the family babysitter is here at the White House.
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