Senate Republicans are moving full steam ahead toward a confirmation vote on Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett before Election Day -- and there is little Democrats can do to stop it.
The former law clerk to late Justice Antonin Scalia is set to be confirmed ahead of the election and Democrats have widely criticized her views ahead of crucial upcoming issues.
Schumer has repeatedly bashed McConnell for moving forward with Barrett's nomination less than two months to Nov. 3 despite having blocked Judge Merrick Garland, whom President Barack Obama nominated nearly nine months before Election Day. "If there would've been the silver bullet to stop these things, it would have happened after Merrick Garland," Manley said.For all of Schumer's criticism of McConnell, he is now taking a page from the GOP's 2016 playbook and refusing to meet with Barrett.
Not all Democrats agree. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois told ABC News'"This Week" Sunday that he intends to speak to Barrett, at least over the phone. "To be honest with you, there is very little that I can see that Democrats can do as it relates to stopping the proceedings for the consideration, hearings, and voting it out of committee and then on the floor," Hoagland said.
"We can slow it down perhaps a matter of hours, maybe days at the most," Durbin said."But we can't stop the outcome."Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks at a news conference with reporters at the Capitol, in Washington, July 23, 2020. "I want to ask her point-blank, as I'm sure others will, whether or not her position is that we should end the Affordable Care Act providing health insurance for 20 million Americans and protections for Americans from one coast to the other from pre-existing conditions being used against them when they buy health insurance," Durbin said.
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