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Washington The US Senate Judiciary Committee will vote next week on Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination, Senator Lindsey Graham said on Thursday.
The vote on October 22 will take place as Senate Republicans push for the rapid confirmation of the 48-year-old conservative jurist before the presidential elections on November 3.
The full Senate will vote on Barrett’s nomination after the committee vote that day. Republicans hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate and have enough votes to confirm Barrett, who is US President Donald Trump’s nominee for the country’s highest court. If confirmed, Barrett would replace former justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal icon who died last month after a battle with cancer. She would give the court a 6-3 conservative majority, though the court’s rulings are often not along strict ideological lines. Democratic Senators have said that the confirmation process is being rushed through and that it is inappropriate to nominate a Supreme Court Justice so close to an election. They argue that whoever wins the presidential election in November should nominate the judge to fill the Supreme Court vacancy. (DPA)
The vote on October 22 will take place as Senate Republicans push for the rapid confirmation of the 48-year-old conservative jurist before the presidential elections on November 3.
The full Senate will vote on Barrett’s nomination after the committee vote that day. Republicans hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate and have enough votes to confirm Barrett, who is US President Donald Trump’s nominee for the country’s highest court. If confirmed, Barrett would replace former justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal icon who died last month after a battle with cancer. She would give the court a 6-3 conservative majority, though the court’s rulings are often not along strict ideological lines. Democratic Senators have said that the confirmation process is being rushed through and that it is inappropriate to nominate a Supreme Court Justice so close to an election. They argue that whoever wins the presidential election in November should nominate the judge to fill the Supreme Court vacancy. (DPA)
