The GOP Just Broke the Rules to Advance Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court Nomination [View all]

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The Senate Judiciary Committee held the vote without any Democratic minority members present.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3veve/the-gop-just-broke-the-rules-to-advance-amy-coney-barretts-supreme-court-nomination

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee tossed out committee rules Thursday morning and voted to advance Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court to the full Senate without any Democratic minority members present.

The 12-0 committee vote frees the full Senate to vote on President Donald Trump’s nomination of Barrett on Monday. With their 53-47 majority, there’s little to stop Senate Republicans from confirming a ninth Supreme Court justice just a few days before the November 3 election.

If confirmed, Barrett would cement the court’s 6-3 conservative majority, likely for years to come. She would replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a trailblazing feminist lawyer who died in mid-September after several bouts with cancer.

Last week, Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Lindsey Graham set the vote for 1 p.m. Thursday. Under committee rules, at least two members of the minority must be present for the committee to conduct business. But Graham, Republican of South Carolina, has broad latitude to control the committee’s conduct.