⁍ U.S. appeals judge Amy Coney Barrett is President Donald Trump’s third nominee to the Supreme Court.

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⁍ She will face a series of informal and formal meetings with the Republican-controlled Senate.

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⁍ That leaves little time for the Senate to fulfill its role and confirm the new justice.

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– President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee is set to begin a series of meetings with senators on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Reuters reports. Amy Coney Barrett, an appeals judge on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, is Trump’s third nominee to the high court and the one he wants seated before the November election. The process for confirming Barrett, who would fill the seat of the late Antonin Scalia, is relatively simple: The Republican-controlled Senate has a 53-47 majority, and only two Republican senators have publicly opposed Trump’s bid to fill the seat. Since Senate Republicans in 2017 eliminated the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations, a simple majority of the 100 members must vote to confirm. That appears likely given Republicans have a 53-47 majority and only two Republican senators have publicly opposed Trump’s bid to fill the seat. Historically, the average number of days from nomination to final Senate vote is around 70, according to the Congressional Research Service. The time from Ginsburg’s nomination to confirmation, however, was just 42 days. The Senate Judiciary Committee’s public hearings are due to start Oct. 12, multiple US media outlets reported, citing Republican Senate sources. Recent nominees have typically kept those views close to their chests. Senators often follow up the testimony with further questions posed to the nominee in writing. Since Senate Republicans in 2017 eliminated for Supreme Court nominations a procedural tactic often used by the minority party to hold up a vote, called the filibuster, a simple majority of the 100 members must vote to confirm.