Senate Judiciary Committee approves Trump’s choice for Supreme Court as Democrats boycott
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Judge Amy Coney Barrett moved one step closer to a seat on the Supreme Court as the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced her nomination with solely Republican support Thursday. Democrats boycotted the vote in protest of what they viewed as an illegitimate confirmation process.
At the committee meeting, aides had placed in the seats of the Democratic senators 10 large portraits of people who benefited from the Affordable Care Act. Each person was someone whom the senators spoke about at Barrett’s confirmation hearings, which senators centered on the issue of health care and the future of the 2010 law known as Obamacare.
“This is not a decision the members of the committee have taken lightly, but a Republican majority has left us no choice,” Senate Minority Leader Charles. E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said during a news conference on the steps of the Capitol after the committee vote. “We are boycotting this illegitimate hearing.”
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