WASHINGTON — Day one of the confirmation hearing for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s third nominee for the US Supreme Court, gave Republicans and Democrats a national stage for a preelection airing of grievances — about the Trump presidency, Joe Biden’s presidential run, the coronavirus pandemic, the future of the Affordable Care Act, the failed Supreme Court nomination of Judge Merrick Garland, and the successful one of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Sen. Patrick Leahy criticized the White House for holding a Rose Garden ceremony announcing Barrett’s nomination before Ginsburg had been buried.Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin invoked Garland’s failed Supreme Court nomination, calling the push to confirm Barrett now “shameless.” Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse brought up Garland as well, and said Barrett’s confirmation proceedings were a “mad, slapdash rush.
Graham acknowledged that the hearing was not about one party persuading the other — “all Republicans will vote yes and all Democrats will vote no,” he predicted. But he said it was still important to give both sides a chance to dig into Barrett’s record, and rebuffed what he described as calls from other conservatives to “ram it through.”
How do you nominate someone who only has 3 years of experience?
Do you mean this Judge Amy Coney Barrett?
Her eyes tell the story she is dead inside!!