Posted on 09/27/2020 2:30:23 PM PDT by karpov
Sen. Lindsey Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Sunday that an escalated timeline for Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett will allow for a vote before Halloween as a number of lawmakers said her confirmation is all but assured.
So well start on Oct. 12, and more than half of the Supreme Court justices who have had hearings were done within 16 days or less, Graham said on Fox News Sunday Morning Futures.
Well have a day of introduction. Well have two days of questioning, Tuesday and Wednesday, and on the 15th well begin to markup, well hold it over for a week, and well report her nomination out of the committee on Oct. 22.
At that point, the Republican from South Carolina said, it would be up to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as to what to do with the nomination once it comes out of committee.
Trump announced Barretts nomination to the court to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg during a White House ceremony on Saturday a week and a day after the liberal icons death at the age of 87.
Republicans in the Senate said they expect Barrett to be confirmed by election day, Nov. 3.
What Ive said was, this needs to take all the time it needs to take, but it doesnt need to take more time than it needs to take, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said on NBC News Meet the Press.
And hes laid out a plan that I think meets all the standards of past hearings and could be done before Election Day. If for some reason its not done, well do it after Election Day, but I think were likely to get this done sometime in the month of October.
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Why so long...she was vetted a couple years ago...
“Bump! The time to stop linda was the primary. But SC has an open primary and lots of rats cross over and vote for him.”
We need to stop the cross overs in the primary. Lindsey is a weak candidate this year.
People are being bombarted by campaign ads using Lindsey Graham bad mouthing Trump daily. My mother is very upset after watching the Ads. She did not know Lindsey was that bad. She ask me about Harrision. She did not know Harrision was a Democrat.
Lindsey should have been campaigning as soon as he won the primary. I saw my only Lindsey ad two days ago. He needs to get out there and campaign hard.
The RNC needs to pump money into SC to support Lindsey or they will loose that seat.
I am voting for Lindsey, I did not vote for him in the primary.
Am I correct in thinking she needs to be in place for the upcoming Election court cases?
Unless there is a landslide she needs to be in place. It is still possible we have a landslide, praying for that outcome.
Yes its excruciating. It leaves no room for error. If the rats manage any delay they get this thing moved past the election. That happens Trump will lose because any enthusiasm gap is dead.
Huh?
Schumers ugly daughter is a lesbian.
Flimsey Grahamnesty is giving the Democrats time to figure out some way to stall some more.
I’d say closer to a Benedict Arnold.
Makes no sense. Graham likes being a Senator. Failure here hurts him personally.
I think the latest stimulus talks have been started again, and action this week on it may occur. Pelosi is preparing to pass something in the House.
Whether this stimulus (Part Five?) is a good idea is another argument, but the Senate might be busy with it this upcoming week.
Excellent point!
Maybe to “show” the good folks of SC how fair he’s being??
Confirm her ASAP. Enough of this BS.
The GOP-controlled Senate will move on this quickly, but they are not going to skip any steps in the typical nomination/confirmation process.
Caution is always justified claimed certainty that we are Being hosed is not.
Hypothetical:
You’re going to “interview” for the most important job of your life and attacks and smears and traps are going to be coming at you from every direction from multiple sources.
You have a choice of sitting down to start cold tomorrow morning or in 2 weeks, should you choose to prepare.
When do you choose to begin?
Of course, we all know that there will be last minute ethics violations and people will want to be able to freely accuse her of whatever George Soros tells them to.
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