Following Barrett vote, Senate adjourns until after the election
Updated: 10:13 PM EDT Oct 26, 2020
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The question occurs on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett of Indiana to be associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. A Senate Is there a sufficient second there is a sufficient second the clerk will call the roll. Mr Alexander Mr Baldwin. Senators voting in the negative. Baldwin Blumenthal, Booker Brown Cantwell Carden Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto, Duck Worth, Durban Feinstein, Gillibrand, Harris On this vote. The Ayes Air 52. The Nays Air 48 The nomination of Amy Coney Barrett of Indiana, to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, is confirmed today. Monday, October 26 2020 will go down as one of the darkest days in the 231 year history of the United States Senate. Let the record show that tonight the Republican Senate majority decided to thwart the will of the people and confirm a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court in the middle of a presidential election. After more than 60 million Americans have voted, let the record show that tonight the Republican majority will break 231 years of precedent and become the first majority to confirm a Supreme Court justice this close to election day and let the record show that tonight the Republican majority will make a mockery of its own stated principle that the American people deserve a voice in the selection of Supreme Court justices. This is not about separation of powers. Is the hostage situation. Ah, hostage situation. Elections come and go. Political power is never permanent, but the consequences could be cataclysmic. If our colleagues across the aisle let partisan passions boil over and scorch scorch the ground rules of our government, the farmers built the Senate to be the nation’s firewall. Over and over this institution, our institution has stood up to stop recklessness that could have damaged our country forever. So tonight colleagues were called on to do that again. Tonight we can place a woman of unparalleled ability and temperament on the Supreme Court. We could take another historic step, step toward a judiciary that fulfills its role with excellence but does not grasp after power that are constitutional system intentionally assigns somewhere else.
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Following Barrett vote, Senate adjourns until after the election
Updated: 10:13 PM EDT Oct 26, 2020
Following the confirmation vote of now-Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Mitch McConnell motioned for the Senate to adjourn and not resume until Nov. 9, nearly a week after the presidential election.The move boots any potential vote of a second COVID stimulus package until after the election. The Senate will resume one day before the Supreme Court, with Barret now seated, expected to hear the Trump-backed challenge to the Obama-era Affordable Care Act. Just before the Senate vote began, the court sided with Republicans in refusing to extend the deadline for absentee ballots in Wisconsin. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Following the confirmation vote of now-Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Mitch McConnell motioned for the Senate to adjourn and not resume until Nov. 9, nearly a week after the presidential election.
The move boots any potential vote of a second COVID stimulus package until after the election.
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The Senate will resume one day before the Supreme Court, with Barret now seated, expected to hear the Trump-backed challenge to the Obama-era Affordable Care Act. Just before the Senate vote began, the court sided with Republicans in refusing to extend the deadline for absentee ballots in Wisconsin.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
