Senators to hear from legal experts on last day of Barrett Supreme Court confirmation hearing
WASHINGTON - The Republican-led U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday scheduled an Oct. 22 vote to advance conservative appellate judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court to the full Senate for confirmation, rejecting Democratic objections.
“I believe that this rushed, sham process is a disservice to our committee,” Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal said. “She has been rushed in a way that is historically unprecedented ... and the purpose of doing it is simply to have a justice on the Supreme Court, as the president said, to decide the election and to strike down the Affordable Care Act.”
Barrett’s confirmation to the lifetime post - a virtual certainty given that Republicans hold a 53-47 Senate majority - would shift the Supreme Court further right with a 6-3 conservative majority. Barrett is Trump’s third nominee to the high court. On Wednesday, Senator Kamala Harris, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s running mate, said that the confirmation proceedings “lack legitimacy” because Americans want the winner of the presidential election to decide who fills the court’s vacancy created by the death of liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Harris urged the Senate to take up COVID-19 pandemic relief legislation instead of the confirmation.
The law has helped millions of Americans obtain medical coverage and includes protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
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