Democrats intend to boycott Thursday’s nomination vote of Amy Coney Barrett
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/
21/926351649/democrats-plan- to-boycott-senate-committee- vote-on-barrett-nomination
“Throughout the hearings last week, committee Democrats demonstrated the damage a Justice Barrett would do – to health care, reproductive freedoms, the ability to vote, and other core rights that Americans cherish,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee said in a statement announcing their boycott. “We will not grant this process any further legitimacy by participating in a committee markup of this nomination just twelve days before the culmination of an election that is already underway.”Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham rejected the Democratic assertion that at least two minority members were needed to proceed with the nomination.
“I will move forward,” he said Wednesday evening. “She deserves a vote.”–NPR
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