Senate judiciary committee approves Amy Coney Barrett as Democrats boycott – live

Committee votes to report the nomination to the full SenateKamala Harris: supreme court nomination a ‘sham’Trump and Biden to have second TV debate in NashvilleObama returns to campaign trail for BidenSign up for Fight to Vote – our weekly US election newsletter 2.53pm BST Vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris has responded to the approval of Amy Coney Barrett – calling the process a “sham” and warning it could have a devastating impact on healthcare:My Democratic Senate colleagues and I boycotted the Supreme Court nominee committee vote today. Let’s be clear: this nomination process is a sham and shows how Republicans will stop at nothing to strip health care from millions of Americans with pre-existing conditions.This vote only took place because Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham violated the committee’s rules to force it through without any members of the minority present. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is now rushing it to the Senate floor by Monday. https://t.co/mdN9hzbU9oOutrageous. Senate Republican pushed through to vote Amy Coney Barrett out of committee — despite a pandemic, an ongoing election, a boycott by all Senate Dems, and a national outcry that the nominee is a threat to our rights. We WILL fight back. #WeDissentIn 2016, they said they couldn’t vote on President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee because it was 9 months before Election Day.In 2020, every Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee votes to advance Trump’s nominee just 12 days before Election Day.pic.twitter.com/0xbfoPCfI2 2.32pm BST “We did it. We did it,” Lindsey Graham announces of the Amy Coney Barrett vote.“Judge Barrett is going to the floor.”Utah Sen. Mike Lee employed poster-board sized pictures of the superhero Aquaman and former President Ronald Reagan riding a velociraptor so he could “consider the Green New Deal with the seriousness it deserves” https://t.co/BIOn1PLABI pic.twitter.com/6H3XRhDNq0 Continue reading…
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