Republicans have scheduled a hearing for Judge Amy Coney Barrett for Oct. 12, just over two weeks after Trump announced her nomination.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett with resident Donald Trump on September 26, 2020.
Since the 1980s and the political battles over then-president Ronald Reagan’s Supreme Court picks, it’s taken nominees at least a month to get to a hearing before the Senate after being nominated, and it’s often taken much longer. “There's nothing inappropriate about filling this vacancy. Many Supreme Court vacancies have been dealt with in a shorter time frame than the time frame between now and the election or the time frame between now and the end of this Senate, which is at the end of this calendar year,” McConnellJohn Paul Stevens
Senators of both parties and their staff, meanwhile, will comb through her record and writings and may try to schedule one-on-one meetings with the nominee. They’ll also get feedback from constituents and outside advocacy groups. Conservative and liberal organizations have said they’re spending millions of dollars on the Barrett nomination fight.
Paris said there also hadn’t been time to properly mourn Ginsburg before shifting gears to the fight over her seat, pointing out that former president Barack Obama waited a month after the late justice Antonin Scalia died in February 2016 before announcing Judge Merrick Garland as his nominee. “It’s because the opposing side is trying to score political points for their base as much as possible,” he said.
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