Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made good on his promise to schedule a formal hearing on Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court. On Monday, the Senate Judiciary Committee announced that Barrett’s hearing will begin, as expected, on Monday, October 12, 2020, at 9 am.
“The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has scheduled a hearing on the nomination of the Honorable Amy Coney Barrett to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to begin Monday, Oct. 12 at 9:00 am & continue through Thursday, Oct. 15,” the committee tweeted Monday, alongside an official statement and calendar item.
The hearing is set to last just four days before Barrett’s nomination is expected to be put to a committee vote. From there, Barrett’s nomination will go to the full Senate floor — and Republicans expect that Barrett will be confirmed by a straight party-line vote and on the court by November 1st, just ahead of the presidential election.
A rash of COVID-19 diagnoses left the Senate’s ability to conduct business in question last week, as did a weekend decision by McConnell largely halting Senate business for at least 14 days while several key Republicans who tested positive for the virus self-quarantine. McConnell noted, however, that despite Senate business being delayed, Barrett’s confirmation hearings would proceed as expected…
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