Trump's Supreme Court choice meets with GOP senators as Republicans fast-track nomination

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Washington Post



Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, meets with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) at the Capitol on Sept. 29. (Erin Schaff/AP)

By
Felicia Sonmez and
Seung Min Kim
September 29, 2020 at 11:53 a.m. CDT

President Trump’s nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy is meeting with Republican senators Tuesday as the GOP moves as quickly as possible to install Judge Amy Coney Barrett on the court before the November election.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) met with Barrett on Capitol Hill and said he is “glad to get the process started.” But he declined to say whether the president’s pick should recuse herself from any potential cases related to the election.

Asked whether he expects Barrett to be confirmed before the election, McConnell did not respond.

Some Democrats, including Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.), have called on Barrett to recuse herself from any election-related cases.

“One of the things I want to ask her is, will she recuse herself in terms of any election issues that come before us, because if she does not recuse herself, I fear that the court will be further delegitimized,” Booker said Sunday in an appearance on NBC News’s “Meet the Press.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/trump-barrett-supreme-court-senate/2020/09/29/bc94fae8-0272-11eb-b7ed-141dd88560ea_story.html

[bluestarone]

1. Meeting with RETHUGS only?

Yea that tells me YOUR story!

[FBaggins]

9. A number of Democrats have said that they won't meet with her

I'm not sure whether that's the right play... but they know better than I do.

[bluestarone]

10. Ah ok TY

I didn't know that. I thought the rethugs were having a meeting WITHOUT Dems.

[Baked Potato]

2. What an uncomfortable looking chair. Such sad faces.

[StTimofEdenRoc]

3. Yes, it would be going to far, but ...

Wouldn't a similar "whisper campaign" be entertaining.

https://www.politico.com/story/2010/03/rove-denies-role-in-mccain-rumor-034075

[Tom Traubert]

4. Aren't many Dems refusing to meet with her?

https://www.newsweek.com/which-democrats-are-meeting-amy-coney-barrett-which-are-refusing-1534955

Despite how I feel about Barrett, McConnell and his Republican minions, I think that’s disrespectful and a mistake.

[Xipe Totec]

7. Your concern is duly noted. nt

[DFW]

5. I was able to find out the hardest question the Republicans put to her. It went like this:

"So, how are you doing today?"

Everything else was softballs.

[Xipe Totec]

6. Note the not too subtle right wing on her shoulder. NT

[cstanleytech]

8. Paving the way for the new 13 SCOTUS with a progressive

majority of 7 to 6.

[BigmanPigman]

11. Call the Senate [phone]

Encorage the Dems, tell the GOP there will be no reelection in their future.