Senate Judiciary Republicans Advance Barrett’s Nomination While Democrats Boycott Vote

10/22/20
 
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from EPOCH Times,
10/22/20:

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted on Oct. 22 to advance Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate floor despite a boycott of the vote by Democrats on the panel.

The Republican-controlled committee voted 12–0 to recommend Barrett; no Democrats were present.

“That was their choice. It will be my choice to vote the nominee out of committee,” the committee chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Oct. 22. “We are not going to allow them to take over the committee. They made a choice not to participate.”

Senate Democrats had said that they would boycott the committee’s vote on Barrett. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Democratic committee members said in a statement that they “will not grant … any further legitimacy” to Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation.

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