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Speaking from the White House Rose Garden on Saturday, President Donald Trump officially nominated Amy Coney Barrett to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Barrett is currently a federal judge on the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals. In a statement, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham confirmed that confirmation hearings for Barrett will begin on October 12.

Speaking from the White House Rose Garden on Saturday, President Donald Trump officially nominated Amy Coney Barrett to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Barrett is currently a federal judge on the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals. In a statement, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham confirmed that confirmation hearings for Barrett will begin on October 12.

  1. 26 Sep 2020

    BREAKING: President Trump is nominating conservative federal appeals court judge Amy Coney Barrett to succeed Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court

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  2. President 's nominee for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court is Judge Amy Coney Barrett.

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  3. BREAKING: SCOTUS SCHEDULE. Sen. Graham says confirmation hearings in Judiciary Committee will start Oct. 12, in 16 days. Oct 12: Opening statements. Oct. 13+14: Questions Oct. 15: Begin markup, get ready to vote in committee.

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  4. 26 Sep 2020

    It's official: Save the date for confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett starting Monday, October 12.

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  5. "I hope to get her out of the committee by the 26th of October," Graham says. "Hopefully it will come to the floor around the 26th, and that'll be up to Mitch McConnell." Says Amy Coney Barrett called him and Senator Feinstein.

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  6. “It’s going to go fast. We’re looking to do it before the election. So it’s going to go very fast,” said of the approval of his nomination of , with Senate hearings starting Oct. 12.

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  7. “She is a woman of unparalleled achievement, towering intellect, sterling credentials and unyielding loyalty to the constitution” President Trump picks Amy Coney Barrett to be the new Supreme Court justice

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  8. 26 Sep 2020

    Trump says after announcing Amy Coney Barrett as SCOTUS nominee, 38 days before election: "This should be a straightforward and prompt confirmation. Should be very easy. Good luck. It's going to be very quick. I'm sure it'll be extremely non-controversial"

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  9. 26 Sep 2020

    Judge Amy Coney Barrett honors the late Justice Ginsburg as she accepts President Trump's nomination to the Supreme Court. "Should I be confirmed, I will be mindful of who came before me. The flag of the U.S. is still flying at half-staff in memory of … a great American life."

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  10. "I am used to being in a group of nine—my family."

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  11. 26 Sep 2020

    Judge Amy Coney Barrett makes clear that her judicial philosophy is the same as Justice Antonio Scalia for whom she clerked 20 years ago. A statement sure to excite conservatives and worry liberals.

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  12. 26 Sep 2020

    Today, President Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court — a jurist with a written track record of disagreeing with the Court’s decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act. Vote like your health care is on the ballot — because it is.

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  13. : Majority Leader Mitch McConnell issues a statement applauding President Trump’s SCOTUS nomination: “I look forward to meeting with the nominee next week and carefully study her record and credentials...this nomination will receive a vote in the Senate in the weeks ahead.”

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  14. Today we welcomed Judge Amy Coney Barrett & her family to the as announced her nomination to serve as Associate Justice of the . This is a historic moment for the Court and we send our best wishes to her & her family.

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  15. Trump’s hand-picked successor to Justice Ginsburg’s seat makes it clear: they intend to destroy the Affordable Care Act & overturn Roe. This selection would move the court further right for a generation & harm millions of Americans. I strongly oppose Judge Barrett’s nomination.

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  16. 27 Sep 2020

    Sen. Chuck Schumer: "A vote for Amy Coney Barrett is a dagger aimed at the heart of the healthcare protections Americans so desperately need and want."

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  17. When you take someone like Amy Coney Barrett, who has such a great record personally and judicially, I think it's going to be a tough sell for Democrats to use the same tactics they used during the Kavanaugh hearings.

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  18. WATCH: Democratic Senator says he intends to have a "good, informed dialogue" with Amy Coney Barrett. "One of the things I want to ask her is will she recuse herself ... in terms of any election issues that come before us."

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  19. Will the Senate Judiciary Committee apply the Ginsburg Rule to the confirmation hearing of Judge Amy Coney Barrett or will our Democrat colleagues apply a different, double standard?

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  20. Senator Coons has added his voice to the chorus of Democrats calling for President Trump to delay the confirmation process for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.

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  21. The name of Trump's illegitimate Supreme Court nominee in many ways doesn’t matter. We know exactly what that person is being picked to do: complete a decades-long assault on our judiciary by billionaires and giant corporations to tilt the courts for the rich and powerful.

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  22. I look forward to supporting ’s nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court. Read my full statement here 👇

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  23. WATCH: Judge Amy Coney Barrett was nominated to 38 days before Election Day. In 2016, Republicans blocked the President’s nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, who was nominated 237 days before Election Day. This is hypocrisy at its worst & will only further divide our country.

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  24. 27 Sep 2020

    Sen. Tom Cotton on if Amy Coney Barrett should indicate a stance on Roe v. Wade: "She understands the judge's role is not to impose her own preferences— not to cast her wishes as the law of the land, but rather to uphold the Constitution and the law as it is written"

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  25. 26 Sep 2020

    Colorado GOP Senator Cory Gardner who running for re-election:"In the days & weeks ahead,I look forward to meeting with Judge Amy Coney Barrett & thoroughly examining her judicial record as I fulfill my constitutional duty of advice and consent." He voted Yes for Barrett in 2017.

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  26. Judge Amy Coney Barrett is an excellent pick for the Supreme Court and I look forward to voting for her.

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  27. 26 Sep 2020

    Fast facts about Judge Amy Coney Barrett: - 48-year-old jurist serves on 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, joining in October 2017 - Clerked for late Justice Antonin Scalia from 1998-99 - Coney Barrett and her husband, Jesse, are parents to 7 children

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  28. 26 Sep 2020

    Amy Coney Barrett is the expected replacement for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But Barrett is more aptly described as heir to another departed Supreme Court justice: conservative hero Antonin Scalia, for whom she once clerked.

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  29. 25 Sep 2020

    NEW Here's everything we know about Amy Coney Barrett's judicial abortion record. Unlike other SCOTUS shortlisters, Barrett offers a clear judicial record siding with regulations that restrict access to abortion. On :

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  30. 25 Sep 2020

    Barrett has three years of experience as a federal judge, serving on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals since 2017. In those three years, Barrett has already ruled on two abortion-related cases, both times favoring restrictions on access to abortion. Here's more on those cases:

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  31. 25 Sep 2020

    Box v. Planned Parenthood: Barrett joined dissenters who favored an Indiana law that would have required doctors to notify the parents of a minor seeking an abortion. Unlike parental notification laws in other states, Indiana's didn't include a judicial bypass provision.

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  32. 25 Sep 2020

    Indiana Dept of Health v. Planned Parenthood: Barrett favored a rehearing of 2 state laws: 1 that regulated the fetal remains from abortion procedures and another that would have banned abortions due to sex, race or disability, including life-threatening conditions.

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  33. 25 Sep 2020

    Following the death of RBG, the fate of Roe v Wade is in jeopardy. Unlike Trump's previous SCOTUS picks, this one will shift the balance of the court to 6 - 3. With 17 abortion cases a step away from SCOTUS, it's likely the new court will look at abortion rights soon.

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  34. 25 Sep 2020

    Multiple studies show that American want abortion to be legal. More than two-thirds of Americans believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases, the highest support in more than 20 years, per . 12% believed the procedure should be illegal in all cases.

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  35. 25 Sep 2020

    Amy Coney Barrett is a front runner for President Trump's Supreme Court nomination. Here's what you need to know about how she made it to the top of the list. 👇

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  36. 26 Sep 2020

    The U.S. is a bit more than 20% Roman Catholic, but the Supreme Court would become two-thirds Catholic if Amy Coney Barrett is nominated and confirmed. At the same time, Joe Biden would become only the second Catholic president if he is elected.

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  37. Amy Coney Barrett is a devout Catholic, and a purported member of a religious group known as the People of Praise, but that’s not the same group that inspired The Handmaid’s Tale, Vox and National Review confirm.

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  38. 23 Sep 2020

    Nearly 6 in 10 Americans say that the president elected in November should be the one to fill the Supreme Court vacancy, according to a new CNN poll

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  39. 26 Sep 2020

    The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett on October 12 — just ahead of the election on November 3.

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  40. 22 Sep 2020

    Here’s what to expect in the process for President Trump to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, and a few ways it could be sped up this time

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  41. 25 Sep 2020

    Provided no surprising information is unearthed that upends the nomination, Republicans and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are set to make history: Never has a Supreme Court justice been confirmed so close to a presidential election

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  42. 25 Sep 2020
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  43. 24 Sep 2020

    What happens to US law without Ruth Bader Ginsburg? It could mean changes for Obamacare, abortion rights, voting rights, LGBTQ rights, police power, and more.

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  44. NEW - Several Democrats will introduce a bill next week to limit U.S. Supreme Court justice terms to 18 years in a bid to reduce partisan warring over vacancies and preserve the court’s legitimacy

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  45. The new Democratic bill for 18-year Supreme Court justice will come with an apparent warning to the Senate: Give the nominee a hearing, or forfeit your role.

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  46. 19 Sep 2020

    I checked the data on previous Supreme Court vacancies near an election. Here's what I found: Latest vacancy filled before the election: June 10, filled July 24. This was exceptional, though: Justice Hughes resigned in June after the Republicans nominated him for president. 1/8

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  47. 19 Sep 2020

    That outlier aside, the latest is March 23 (Waite), filled July 20. 6 other vacancies arose later than that. Of those, 5 were only filled after inauguration. The 6th was filled soon after an election in which the president was reelected. But that's not the whole picture. 2/8

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  48. 19 Sep 2020

    10 vacancies arose during the lame-duck (betw. election and inauguration). Of them: 4—filled after inauguration. 3—filled during the lame-duck after the election kept the president's party in power. 3—filled during the lame-duck after the election shifted party control. 3/8

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  49. 19 Sep 2020

    So a Supreme Court confirmation now would be historically unusual. This late, we typically wait to see how the election goes. With only one exception (Daniel), every contrary precedent involved a nominee who won unanimous Senate approval—an unimaginable prospect today. 8/8

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