Last week, with a 52-48 vote in the United States Senate, in what seemed like the fastest US Supreme Court nomination process in the modern era, Seventh Circuit Appellate Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, became the newest Supreme Court Justice of the United States of America. Coney Barrett, a Rhodes College and University of Notre Dame (JD) graduate is also the first Non-Ivy league college graduate to join the high court in the Modern Era.
With this action US Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has effectively made one the most powerful and influential moves this election season.
McConnell said of the process on Twitter, “The Senate just confirmed Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court of the United States. One of the most impressive nominees for public office in a generation will serve for life on our highest court.”
Both Nevada US senators Catherine Cortez-Masto (D) and Jacky Rosen (D) voted in the negative against Coney Barrett.
In her floor speech, Senator Cortez-Masto said, “I rise today to join my colleagues in opposing the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett as justice of the Supreme Court. This is the wrong time to be choosing a Supreme Court justice, and Judge Barrett is the wrong candidate for a seat on that Court. The timing of tonight’s confirmation vote is shocking. The majority of Americans want to be able to weigh in on who should sit in Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the highest court in the land. They want to vote to choose a president to fill that vacancy….”
Senator Jacky Rosen also offered remarks opposing the nomination, “I rise today because the health care of millions of Nevadans, and of Americans, is in danger,” said Senator Rosen. “Their health care is endangered because, in just a few weeks, the Supreme Court will consider a case that could overturn the Affordable Care Act completely. This means that the next Supreme Court justice will decide whether individuals with pre-existing conditions could once again be denied health care coverage…..”
In a press conferences early in the process, former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt (R), along with former Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison, both said confirming President Trump’s nomination before the election was important.
No democrats in either the committee or in the full Senate voted to support the nominee. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) had instructed his caucus and members in both bodies of the Judiciary and the Senate to not vote or attend the nomination session nor to move the nomination out of committee.
Coney Barrett fills the seat vacated by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg when she died on September 18. Ginsburg was considered by many to be one of the staunchest icons of liberal judicial thought on the bench.
Additionally, in the two weeks following Ginsburg’s death, democrats through the fundraising tool, ActBlue, were able to raise nearly $400 million for democrat candidates.
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