The Republicans, who hold the majority, voted unanimously in favor of Barrett, a conservative judge. Instead of attending, the Democrats displayed posters at their desks of Americans they say have benefited from the Affordable Care Act now being challenged in court. Senators plan to convene a rare weekend session ahead of a final confirmation vote expected Monday.
Trump’s Republican allies in the Senate are counting on Barrett’s ascent to improve their standing with voters. The court could open a new era of rulings on the Affordable Care Act, abortion access and even the results of the presidential election. With Republicans holding a 53-47 majority in the Senate, Trump’s pick for the court is almost certain to be confirmed. All Democrats are expected to oppose Barrett’s confirmation.
Barrett, an appellate court judge from Indiana, appeared for three days before the panel last week, batting back Democrats’ questions. She was asked about her approach to legal questions surrounding abortion access, gay marriage and the nation’s tradition of a peaceful transfer of presidential power.
The court is set to hear a challenge to the health care law on Nov. 10, one week after the presidential election, and Trump has said he wants a justice who won’t rule as others have to uphold the Obama-era Affordable Care Act.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
Boycott. Why? Afraid she won't rubber stamp your agenda?
They’re ALL full of political BS🙌🏼
As Dems encourage ordinary citizens to vote (for free), Dem Senators (& VP candidate) getting paid to NOT vote.
Yamiche It’s time to call our senators en masse
Wonder how many judges work for yrs to get a shot at this and she comes along and after 'serving' as a judge for only 3 yrs she is steamrolled in....damn shame, if I were one of those judges I'd be pissed af right now...just saying👎
mchovden1785 GOPHypocrisy GOPBetrayedAmerica GOPPARTYOVERCOUNTRY
Unqualified
Yamiche GOPHypocrisy GOPBetrayedAmerica
AP, you should have reported that the Republicans changed the rules to make this vote.
Hope all house dems heads go into convulsions
Democrats should not give in to extortion and now already commit, that they will expand the Court if she is confirmed. Time to expand this court anyway, since the Court only take a very few (2%?) cases, mostly decided by clerks just out of school!
Vote Biden!
Yamiche During a pandemic she brought her children to an event. 🎯No social distancing 🎯Few masks 🎯Hugs 🎯Air kisses If this is how she makes decision I don't want her to have any power.
Democracy in action. Cannot get my way will not play. Childish once again.
jayoung1892 If Senate GOP does this now, it has no logical expectation to cite non-quorum rules when Ds are the majority. Of course, since when does logic make much of a difference to the Senate GOP anyway?
So they want us to vote for change, yet they boycott vote for change. Seems hypocritical.
Yamiche I am thoroughly disgusted with the GOP. Just like Trump, they are totally self serving and do not support the will of the majority. Martha McSally in Arizona does not deserve any office nor our respect. SenMcSallyAZ
Yamiche AmyConeyBarrettIsUnfit Dear Women of America - get ready to be sent back to the 1950 or beyond! I refuse to have to be Barefoot and Pregnant cooking dinner and not being allowed to own Property! iamnotokaywiththis HandmaidAmy
Yamiche Democrats should not boycott, but strongly make the points that set Amy Barrett up for future impeachment. Get it on the record. She lied under oath.
This is their given right by the constitution anyone who disagrees is either an idiot or a sore loser. If democrats were in power they would do the exact same thing and not acquiesce to this deluded mob mentality
Yamiche At least 46 million people have already voted It's less than 12 days before election day Pure greed, egotism and hypocrisy by the Republicans
This country is being run by the most crooked lying President and GOP in our history. TrumpChinaBankAccount VoteBidenHarrisToSaveAmerica GOPCorruptionOverCountry TrumpIsANationalDisgrace TrumpIsANationalSecurityThreat VoteBlueDownBallot
I love how people that are supporting individuals that want to pack the court, are complaining about what the people want. We are governed by children throwing hissy fits and those children are voted on by mostly moronic lemmings.
Impeach her after Biden’s in office. I’m tired of these corrupt republicans ramming judges through.
This is illegitimate.
MerrickGarland
These appointments shouldn't be for a lifetime in the first place, how long ago were those rules written?
Good. AmyConeyBarrett SCOTUS
No...a partisan faction of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
So all of BenSasse crying about the losses the GOP will take because of trump was false. He could have sent a message to Americans that truth, honor, and the Rule of Law meant something to at least one Republican, but no. It's all a lie.
Yamiche We have no democracy if one party continues to act in bad faith. 'Hold the tape...' VoteBlueToSaveAmerica
This anti-democratic sham will cause an unprecedented era of distrust in the the US judicial system equal to that of corrupt shthole countries!
This rat will go down with the ship jus like the others. Pos
Can’t the dems just pull the fire alarm everyday until the election results are in? Seriously...it’s childish but it’s necessary.
ACB senatejudiciarycommittee Craven PowerGrab IllegitimateVote we are watching the birth of the AmericanFascistParty
The GOP continues it’s court packing! Glad the Democrats boycotted this. She is clearly not qualified to sit on the Supreme Court and she is a right wing radical nut job! Not representative of the majority. To top it off there is an election going on! VoteBlueDownBallot
BlockBarrett CorruptCourts
You can see the cowards of the Democratic Party. They can’t even show up. This will come back and haunt them.
How is boycotting a vote less effective than voting no?
Thing is, if ACB were a decent and fair human being, she would agree that this whole thing is too anti democratic and artificially rushed, and she would speak up to have them hold off till after the election... Obama’s attempt at selecting Garland was 8 months prior, not weeks!
This is a done deal, so there's no sense spending time
The GOP shall reap what it has sown.
I know it doesn’t matter that much. But the Democrats shouldn’t have boycotted the vote and instead should have went down on the record as voting no on her confirmation. Otherwise, since they didn’t vote, her confirmation is considered unanimous.
Watching Crying Chuck Schumer crying outside the Senate 😩😫😖😫😩throwing a tantrum with his Democratic Colleagues 😂
Yamiche She will be the most unqualified person in the history of scotus selections!
VoteThemAllOut The GOP knows this is their last chance. PatToomey VOTE NO ON THIS DISASTROUS CONFIRMATION! DESTROYING PRECEDENT! Pendulum will swing the other way in Janurary. GOP needs to shape their shit up or half of them are going to Prison.
That is totally abdication of duty... they should be consequences..
Kangaroo court....
Almost $6000+ a week salary for the rest of her life .... she wants this job
Please tell the FULL story. The fact is LindseyGrahamSC broke committee rules to advance Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination out of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Barrett will forever carry the stigma of being nominated by Republicans under the Trump administration for the singular purpose of undermining democracy.
Shocking news.
Republicans broke their own rules to ram through a vote with zero Democrats present.
Fact that this woman is ok with being confirmed in this sham process just goes to show she has no character and is a pawn for the billionaire sugar daddies putting her on the court.
Democrats are acting like petulant children who didnt get their way. Always about power,control & big Gov't for over 100yrs of this.
And in the process have rendered her nomination unconstitutional. So thanks GOP, you just laid ground for her being declared illegitimate.
RepAdamSchiff SenSchumer HouseDemocrats TheDemocrats TAKE IT BACK NOW.
Yamiche I wouldn’t have boycotted the vote. I would’ve simply voted “no”. With that being said, I know there’s a better fit out there. I just didn’t care for some of her responses and history. Also, I have a problem with rushing a nominee through and prioritizing it over COVID relief.
Disgusting! Despicable! Immoral! Unethical! GOP full of deplorables!!!!
So the Senate can take the time to hammer through a nomination that most Americans don’t want done until after the election, yet they can’t work on COVID relief legislation to help struggling families & businesses that need help RIGHT NOW 🤦🏻♀️
The Republicans broke their own committee rules by ramming this unqualified nominee down our throats. I voted because my marriage depends on it! Vote
Not a single Democrat was present and the Republicans broke their own rules to do this.
D’s are SOL. Win more elections.
RepublicansAreTheProblem ....what a sad day for democracy.
The one thing that I wish D's would realize is that only one party cares about doing the right thing while another only cares about winning. This is another example of that with one side ringing the Victory bell and another ringing the Morality bell
This is infuriating. The rural minority of US citizens are over represented in congress, the White House, and now the Supreme Court. SCOTUS term limits, throw away the electoral college, take some of the Senate’s powers and give them to the House.
And now we get to see if ths GOP decides to take the nuclear option and destroy the credibility of the high court, or if a few defectors value our institutions enough to protect their sanctity.
So she was recommended unanimously?
That wasn’t a boycott. They didn’t show up to do their jobs. Just like your boy Joe. Can’t answer any Hunter questions. so Hide. When are you 🤡s going to start doing your jobs. Where’s Hunter and the big Guy .
So wrong
BREAKING: senjudiciary does its job while TheDemocrats throw yet another impotence-fueled tantrum.
We deserve better than this. A desperate last move of a failing party following the orders of their tyrannical leader. Vote them out... all of them!
openargs 'Chairman LindseyGrahamSC just broke committee rules to advance Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. No Democrats were present. They will do anything to jam through this nominee to rip away health care amid a pandemic. It's disgraceful.'
Quel Surprise.
Democrats continue their 4 year hissy fit and then expect to be rewarded at the polls.
Of course Senate GOP goes forward with ruining our last branch of Gov't. Good luck getting any political job ever after their next election. Fox News and OAN only need so many contributors and the private sector won't touch them with a 10ft pole.
The Handmaiden’s Sham
Yamiche As a Republican woman lawyer, I am ashamed at the men in out party. We were supposed to be honorable. Your word means nothing. You can try and spin it but... You have collapsed the Republican Party. When it rises for a new generation the woman will lead. ChuckGrassley tedcruz
Boycotting the vote really worked out.
holmes_62 If she had any respect for the rule of law or country or herself she would walk away from this travesty of Justice. groomed
Hypocrite Republicans.....
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Welp, when you lose to an orange idiot
Yamiche RULES? Feh - who cares about RULES. MoscowMitch certainly doesn't. Senate rules require at least 2 members of minority in order to vote. He needed to negotiate to get 2 there to hold vote. Didn't even try - just blatantly ignored the RULES.
Yamiche Why’s everyone asking JoeBiden about court packing & not calling this court packing? Mitch McConnell held open over 100 lifetime Fed seats, stopped Garland’s nomination & now is ramming thru this ACB nomination. As POTUS, Biden would be exploring expanding the court not packing
Yamiche Step 1. Vote them out. Step 2. Pack the courts.
Illegitimate
Shock!
Yamiche Breaking rules again
That was *some* judgment AmyConeyBarrett displayed at the RoseGarden SuperSpreader event, eh? 'She was only doing what Trump wanted' is obviously a shitty excuse.
Lol NOW you boycott
Yamiche Senate Judiciary Republicans break rules to push through Trump’s nominee.
The GOP can go out of its way to change rules and hold weekend sessions to push this nomination through, but can’t be bothered to pass any type of COVID relief for Americans.
_Politics 'What are rules?' Lindsay said as he broke the committee rules, because rules only apply to Democrats.
Guess it’s a clean sweep then.
Yamiche Disgusting The Supreme Court lost its moral authority by playing partisan games and pre-judging issues
Yamiche Republicans will pay for this. George Conway approved this nomination. Remember this!
Yamiche The Republicans only
Yamiche Merrick Garland should have had a righteous confirmation hearing just like Amy Coney Barret is getting.
Um, it's done. And has anyone seen DementiaJoe lately? Apparently he went back to the basement a few days ago and nobody has seen him since.
Yamiche She does not deserve to be confirmed, and the Republican should stand there Ground because they know this to be true. Well we will see. God help us all if she is confirmed.
Yamiche Why bother having the vote. Just show her to her office. What a fucking farce. Merrick Garland, are you watching this?
Yamiche Well now there are legal grounds for her removal.
Yamiche Hypocrites. Gop and their followers literally have no morals. Worse than lawyers and car salesmen
Anti everything human bitch
Democrat Boycott= Peaceful / Are Not Called Protesters / Rioters/ Terrorists Etc. Are Not Being Pepper Sprayed / Beaten / Arrested Etc.🙄🧐 But Whats The Difference When The People Boycott / Protest?🤦♀️🤦♀️😷 This Needs To Be A Topic. THE U.S.A. SYSTEM IS CRIMINAL / SUCKS.😷😷
Why aren't the Dems barricading the doors?
What it should be obvious is that the Senate knows Republicans are going to loose this election and Democrats will control the Executive and Legislative Branches, thus packing the Judiciary is their only game. Otherwise they will have waited until after the election.
GOP is the most corrupt party. The party of Lincoln is dead. What’s left is a shining example of what cronyism looks like. Americans will be paying this bill for generations. BlueWaveFestival2020 AmyComeyBarrett is an example of the handmaidstale in real life. I mourn for USA!
Yamiche If Judge Amy had any integrity she would stop this charade immediately
Now the rubber hits the road...and some GOP Senators may hit the road on election day depending on how they vote. Watch for the taking cover GOPs. The ones who knowing the vote will pass without their vote are greenlighted by leadership to vote 'their conscience' against.
Yamiche
She should be ashamed of herself. RBG is rolling in her grave!
GOPCorruptionOverCountry NoScotus LetThePeopleDecide
Not only has trump made a mockery of the US democracy but he has destroyed all convenience in our judicial system
Yamiche BetrayalOfTrust
Yamiche AmyPhonyBarrett in the future I will bet her own kids will be outraged by her actions once they are allowed to think for themselves
Yamiche These are the GOP Senators who voted to appoint Barrett and effectively take away your Healthcare, Voting, Abortion and LGBT rights Lindsey Graham Thom Tillis Joni Ernst Chuck Grassley Marsha Blackburn Mike Lee John Cornyn Ted Cruz Ben Sasse Josh Hawley Mike Crapo John Kennedy
Yeah, gotta give the Democrats their chance to pitch one more hissy fit.
The US Senate has already confirmed the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett into the nation's Supreme Court despite Democrats' deliberate absenteeism. Could their votes have mattered either? Methinks, that's an unequivocal NO. President Donald Trump already has his choice stamped.
Yamiche GOPComplicitTraitors only will be stopped with a massive vote BidenHarris2020ToEndThisNightmare BidenHarris2020Landslide
They will be sorry.
Democrats are a plague to all Americans if you don't think Amy is an excellent choice you should go
Aside from the incompetent handling of the pandemic, this is the biggest travesty, the most grotesque & bigoted act by HouseGOP & SenateGOP deserving their ouster.
Yamiche Bogus vote from a bogus committee NO CONSENT!
We do not care if the Democrats boycott. As a matter of fact, we are sick if the Democrats and their behavior. The Democrats are power hungry and we see that through Biden e-mails and Clinton e-mails.
RuthLess
Lets get it done.
jackmjenkins The Republicans don’t care about rules. They don’t care about the will of the American people. They know they can’t win elections on their record. So they have decided that stacking the Courts with right wing judges is the way to bypass the will of the people!
If you elect not to participate which is what Schumer did by ordering Democrats to stay away from the process, then you don't deserve the right to object to the vote.Congrats Justice Amy Coney Barett.
With such reprehensible conduct by republican senators, who are clearly not interested in the will of the people, I don’t believe there will be much objection to “packing the Supreme Court” to right this egregious wrong.
PresenteOrg The GOP is the party of complete disregard of rules, not to mention decency. If Amy Barret had any decency herself, she’d withdraw. But she’s an extremist, a “true believer”, and also unqualified. Imagine if we became tenured full professors 3 years after we first became Faculty.
When your elected officials are working for You, The People. Partisanship PoliticsToday YouAllSuck
Democrats throwing a bitch fit because they want to legalize human extermination and systemic genocide.
She's taking too much dirty attacks from democrats
Democrats are boycotting the vote for an impressive and highly qualified woman. Why are they not working like the the rest of us? Why are we using our tax dollars to make them rich? Disgusting.
And now Biden wants to change the number of judges because they don’t have control. Trump 2020
How can they vote of both parties are not present, this is illegal!
Republicans simply are doing EVERY THING they can to keep normal 'The People' from voting easily, safely and with dignity! Perhaps their GOP (Ha HA) has finally committed its own demise. ~BRSchu
Screw that committee.
Trump building the 4th reich
Her children will wonder why mommie can’t get along with people.
It’s coming out that Amy is, simply put, a bad lady.
Good, deny the quorum. The GOP qould have done it, and likely will do it. Screw em.
~40 Millions Americans have already voted in this election. The GOP are cheaters & liars. They never cared about the American people having a voice when they blocked Garland's hearings.
*demoncrats
Shame on Republicans in Senate. They will pay for this with our ballots. Barrett shouldn’t be appointed to Supreme Court.
If you think might makes right you can't complain when the shoe is on the other foot...shoving things down people's throats have a way backfiring..
Unanimous recommendation from the committee....excellent!!! 12-0
So the changes Reid and Schumer made come back and bite them in the ass. Dems so short sighted.
_Politics Unheard of in the history of Supreme Court nominees. Well done, TheDemocrats. You continue to slide into discredited oblivion.
So basically this is the Democrats reaction right now....
Oh I see, your vote is not important after all. Thanks senators.
Why is this breaking news? It is extremely obvious this was going to happen.
She will never be respected. She is to thirsty.
Good. It's beyond embarrassing to see how much the Trumplicans have wrecked everything, and now have fully turned the valuable process of confirming an SCJ into an absolute mockery. They have turned the SC in a mockery.
This is so wrong she’s a trump puppet too
Broods of vipers these smuffs called GOP senators..
Covid relief package please...
NBC29 FILL THAT SEAT 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅
No integrity with this GOP-drain the swamp of the grifters
jackmjenkins Qualified is the best one can say. Inexperienced, with views outside the judicial and political mainstream, are reasons to REJECT THIS NOMINATION, timing, anti-democracy and hypocrisy aside.
Democrats should have boycotted the whole process
this is what sore losers look like
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MERRICK GARLAND, MOTHERF*CKERS.
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