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9.11am BST
Sen. Chuck Schumer was on the Rachel Maddow show last night, and here’s what he said about Republican plans today to push through a Senate judiciary committee vote on nominating Amy Coney Barrett to the US supreme court.
He accused his Republican counterparts of “defiling” the Senate and described the process as “despicable”, saying that they are trying to rush through the nomination because “they don’t want the American people to know what Amy Coney Barrett stands for”.
The rules of the committee require two Democrats to be there to move a nominee out, and we do not want to provide the quorum. We do not want to participate. This process is the most rushed, the most illegitimate, the most hypocritical process of any Supreme Court nominee we have ever, ever seen. The Republicans just at will try to break the rules. They are so hell bent on rushing this nominee through. I think the reason is, the longer it takes, the more things are going to come out that show that Amy Coney Barrett is so far away from the American mainstream, in terms of what she believes on a woman’s right to choose, healthcare, labor rights, civil rights, gun gun safety LGBTQ rights, that they don’t want it out there very long.
“This process is the most rushed, the most illegitimate, the most hypocritical process of any Supreme Court nominee we have ever, ever seen.” -Senator Schumer on Democrats boycotting the Senate Judiciary Committee vote to advance Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination pic.twitter.com/4odTuUEgW0
9.05am BST
Barack Obama delivered a stinging rebuke yesterday of president Donald Trump in a speech delivered in Philadelphia while campaigning for Joe Biden.
Obama criticised Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis as well as divisive behaviour including retweeting conspiracy theories that you wouldn’t tolerate from anyone “except from a crazy uncle”.
9.01am BST
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