Lindsey Graham: Judiciary Committee will approve Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination October 22

NewsColony
Lindsey Graham: Judiciary Committee will approve Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination October 22

Lindsey Graham said Sunday that the Judiciary Committee will hold its confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett next month and will report her nomination to the Senate floor on October 22.

‘So, we’ll start on October 12, and more than half of the Supreme Court justices who have had hearings were done within 16 days or less,’ Graham told ‘Sunday Morning Futures’ host Maria Bartiromo. ‘We’ll have a day of introduction. We’ll have two days of questioning, Tuesday and Wednesday, and on the 15th we’ll begin to markup, we’ll hold it over for a week, and we’ll report her nomination out of the committee on October 22.’

‘Then it will be up to [Senate Majority Leader Mitch] McConnell as to what to do with the nomination once it comes out of committee,’ the South Carolina Republican continued.

Graham chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, which oversees confirmation hearings for federal judge and justice nominations.

With a Republican majority in the Senate, and Graham’s newly announced timeline, Barrett will likely be approved to take the vacant Supreme Court seat before the end of October – and just days before the November 3 presidential election.

Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham said Sunday the panel will vote to report Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee to the senate on October 22 setting up a vote days before the election

Trump formally announced Barrett as his nominee during an event in the Rose Garden Saturday afternoon.

Democrats lament that there should be no confirmation hearings or vote on a nominee until after the election, claiming whoever is victorious in November should choose the next Supreme Court Justice.

The seat opened up last Friday when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died due to complications from pancreatic cancer.

The president touts Barrett, a 48-year-old mother of seven and devout Roman Catholic, as a pure constitutional textualist. And the federal judge said during her brief acceptance remarks Saturday that she will ‘apply the law as written.’

Source: Daily Mail |NewsColony

The post Lindsey Graham: Judiciary Committee will approve Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination October 22 appeared first on NewsColony.

source https://newscolony.com/lindsey-graham-judiciary-committee-will-approve-amy-coney-barretts-nomination-october-22/

Comments

Volunteers book hotel room for homeless man with SingapoRediscovers vouchers

NewsColony Volunteers book hotel room for homeless man with SingapoRediscovers vouchers © The Independent Singapore Singapore — A group of volunteers from the Mummy Yummy Singapore welfare organisation donated their SingapoRediscovers Vouchers to book a hotel room for a homeless man. The man, who was identified as Jayden, did not have a place to live while waiting for the Housing Board (HDB) to allocate him a rental flat. In a Facebook post on Mummy Yummy Singapore’s page on Wednesday (Dec 16), the volunteers said: “We used our $100 Rediscover Singapore vouchers to redeem hotel stay for him and successfully booked 9 days worth of stay at 3 days per voucher.” They added that they were unable to book a longer stay because of higher hotel rates over Christmas and New Year. The volunteers hoped that they would be able to bridge Jayden’s stay until he got a flat. “Thanks our government for giving us these vouchers which in return we can put them to good use for people in need,” th...

Disabled people are still vulnerable, even as COVID-19 normalizes their ‘special’ needs

Disabled people are still vulnerable, even as COVID-19 normalizes their ‘special’ needs NewsColony Perhaps it’s appropriate that public notices of the COVID-19 crisis began as an ableist cruelty. Health officials assured the nation that only the elderly and those with chronic health conditions would be seriously affected; most Americans (i.e., the normal people) would have only mild symptoms and be fine. x A friendly reminder: people who will be high-risk patients if we get coronavirus can hear you when you reassure everyone we’re the only ones who might die. Ã¢Â€Â” Alexandra Brodsky (@azbrodsky) February 29, 2020 Soon after the announcement of those assurances, the likelihood of high-risk people surviving was further limited by the people more likely to be fine. Shopping frenzies cleared stores of essential supplies needed everyday by many disabled people, like thermometers, hand wipes, masks, and IV infusion supplies. Accustomed to their needs ...

Coronavirus UK: BBC makes changes to ‘lift people’s spirits’

Coronavirus UK: BBC makes changes to ‘lift people’s spirits’ NewsColony BBC viewers have been warned that ‘things will look and sound a bit different’ during the coronavirus crisis. In a blog post on the corporation’s website, BBC News Chief Fran Unsworth outlined a number of changes its newsroom was making in light of the ‘rapidly evolving situation’. Among the changes, presenters will doing their own make-up, many interviews will be conducted remotely and the BBC will rely more on its network of local reporters, Ms Unsworth explained. TV veterans Mr Motivator and Angela Rippon have also signed up for a new BBC One show to lift people’s spirits during the pandemic. HealthCheck UK Live, with Watchdog’s Michelle Ackerley and CBBC star Dr Xand van Tulleken will air every weekday for two weeks. TV veterans Mr Motivator and Angela Rippon have also signed up for a new BBC One show to lift people’s spirits during the pandemic HealthCheck UK Live, with Wa...

NewsColony

Search This Blog