Posted on 10/21/2020 3:05:36 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee will boycott Thursday's committee vote on Judge Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination.
The plan comes as the 10 Democratic senators on the panel have been discussing how to protest the GOP plan to confirm Barrett next week to the seat held by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and the Democrats on the committee, in a joint statement, said the push to confirm Barrett was a "sham process" and accused Republicans of breaking "the promises and rules" established by refusing to give Merrick Garland, then-President Obama's final Supreme Court nominee, a hearing or a vote.
Fearing a loss at the ballot box, Republicans are showing that they do not care about the rules or what the American people want, but are concerned only with raw political power," they said.
"We will not grant this process any further legitimacy by participating in a committee markup of this nomination just twelve days before the culmination of an election that is already underway," they added.
Democrats, instead, are expected to hold two press conferences on Thursday.
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So the vote out of committee will be unanimous?
Excellent!
Since they are all Nay votes, it wont matter. Better off they are not there.
I was wondering about attendance requirements too but have no idea
“By show of hands....”
Then gavel and go to lunch...
As if the democrats wouldnt have confirmed a Justice if they were in charge and Queen hillary was president.
Precisely.
Oh well.
Thats fine too. Just send it to directly to Cocaine Mitch for a floor vote.
We tried to tell Miss Lindsey not to waste precious time with committee hearings as they aren’t required by the Constitution
So, no requirement that there’s a committee vote
This proves that even they think THEY are worthless. What pathetic overpaid anti-Constitution nitwits.
Under Judiciary Committee rules, 12 members have to be present in order to report a nomination to the floor a requirement Republicans can meet on their own if every GOP senator is present.
But the rules also require two members of the minority party to be present in order to transact business.
No.
Roberts now clutching at his pearls...
They’ll leave posters in their seats ? How do you tell the difference ?
The Rats rammed through ObamaCare in the dead of night on Christmas Eve without a single Republican vote.
Payback is a bitch. /spit.
Maybe two senators could switch parties, vote, and then switch back.
Didn’t the Dem women wear white and turn away and walk out of Trump’s State of the Union or something?
Haven’t seen such childishness since the kindergarten school playground.
Who cares?!?
Spoiled brats throwing a temper tantrum nothing more
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