Senate To Work Through Weekend To Push Barrett Onto Court
Source: AP News
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Wasting no time, the Senate is on track to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court by next Monday, charging toward a rare weekend session as Republicans push past procedural steps to install President Donald Trump’s pick before Election Day. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he will begin the process as soon as the Senate Judiciary Committee wraps up its work Thursday.
With a 53-47 Republican majority, and just two GOP senators opposed, Trump’s nominee is on a glide path to confirmation that will seal a conservative hold on the court for years to come. McConnell said Monday that Barrett demonstrated over several days of public hearings the “sheer intellectual horsepower that the American people deserve to have on the Supreme Court.”
Without the votes to stop Barrett’s ascent, Democrats have few options left. They are searching for two more GOP senators to break ranks and halt confirmation, but that seems unlikely. Never before as a court nominee been voted on so close to a presidential election.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer decried what he called the “farcical” process to “jam” through Trump’s choice, even as the coronavirus outbreak sidelined GOP senators. “The Republican majority is running the most hypocritical, most partisan and least legitimate process in the history of Supreme Court confirmations,” he said during speech as the Senate opened.
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been packed with right wing hypocrites and now this transgression has come to full fruition with #Moscow Mitch turning this country into a third rate banana republic, literally, she and her two other amigos lied to get on the court with the help of the firms tied to dark money firms................we need to expand this court to 15 to 21 and all appeal court's need to be doubled in size.................this is BS.
And then words from the chief enabler to a crime family, that has over 220,000 dead human beings in this country, millions getting kicked out of their homes, Apartments, and children going hungry and 28 million that can't find a job
So # Moscow Mitch she eats hay and shits horse manure..................
But let's fast track Aunt Lydia to the SC so she can destroy our society EVEN FURTHER..
She's the vote who'll beak the tie in the Supreme Court to overrule State Supreme Courts' election rulings. Great. The Handmaid who installed Don-the-Con for his second term. 
This has to stopped somehow.
We The People have the Supreme Power. Let's use it.
Every Vote Counts. Do it.
