TrendsWide
Contact US
  • Home
  • Trending
  • Health
  • Life Style
  • NBA
  • Reviews
No Result
View All Result
TrendsWide
  • Home
  • Trending
  • Health
  • Life Style
  • NBA
  • Reviews
No Result
View All Result
TrendsWide
No Result
View All Result
Home Euro

US elections: Senate set to confirm Trump court nominee despite Democrats’ opposition

by souhaib
October 26, 2020
in Euro
0
74
SHARES
1.2k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
ADVERTISEMENT


You might also like

Angela Merkel given Moderna as second COVID-19 jab after having AstraZeneca as first injection

German stadiums to display rainbow colours during Hungary match in defiance of UEFA ban

Taliban take key Afghan district, adding to string of gains

The US Senate is expected to confirm Donald Trump”s nominee to the Supreme Court despite weeks of opposition from the left-leaning Democratic Party.

The confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett will likely come just one week ahead of the country’s presidential elections.

The opposition Democrats, who boycotted the judiciary committee vote last week that advanced Barrett to the full Senate, have argued that the person who wins the presidential election should choose the nominee.

Barrett was pegged late last month to replace former justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal icon and fierce defender of gender equality, who died due to pancreatic cancer complications.

National radio station NPR reported that in a note dictated to her granddaughter, Ginsburg’s last wish was that the next president picks her replacement.

But Trump’s political party, the Republicans, hold a majority in the Senate with 53 seats and have enough votes to confirm the judge, despite one senator, Susan Collins, planning to vote no.

The Republicans have made Barrett’s confirmation a top priority.

All 47 opposition Senators – 45 Democrats and 2 independents – are expected to vote no on Barrett’s nomination in the vote.

The Senate held an atypical overnight session on Sunday night, debating the judge’s nomination.

A change that could last generations

Barrett’s confirmation would swing the US Supreme Court to the right for generations, as it means there will be six conservative-leaning justices to three liberal-leaning justices on the nine-person court.

“This is something to really be proud of and feel good about. We’ve made an important contribution to the future of this country,” said Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell on the Senate floor over the weekend.

“A lot of what we’ve done over the last four years will be undone, sooner or later, by the next election. Won’t be able to do much about this, for a long time to come,” he added.

Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer said on the steps of the Capitol as Senate Democrats boycotted the committee vote that Barrett’s confirmation was “the most illegitimate process” he had “ever witnessed in the Senate”.

He said it would have “dire, dire consequences for the Senate, for the Supreme Court, and our entire country for generations to come”.

There are several key issues that the court is expected to rule on in the coming months, including provisions of Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act on November 10, which Republicans unsuccessfully attempted to overturn at the beginning of Trump’s mandate.

The court could also rule on election matters, as it previously did in 2000, over a recount of votes in the state of Florida.

“Her views are not within the American mainstream,” Democratic senator Chris Murphy said late Sunday night on the Senate floor, stating that Republicans were not legislating changes that they wanted because their views were “unpopular”.

He said that Republicans were instead using the Supreme Court to push through a more conservative agenda.

Republicans previously refused to consider Barack Obama’s Supreme Court candidate Merrick Garland in 2016, stating that it was too close to the election, although he was nominated a full eight months before the vote.

Influence on election issues

Over the course of long Senate hearings last week, Democrats peppered Judge Barrett with questions about issues such as abortion, healthcare, and gun policy. Judge Barrett has insisted that she would set her religious views aside when ruling on cases.

Barrett is an originalist, adhering to a similar view of the US Constitution as her former mentor, the late justice Antonin Scalia.

She has been on a federal appeals court since 2017 and teaches at the University of Notre Dame Law School.

Democrats questioned how she would rule on cases, pointing to previous writings where she disagreed with a court decision preserving Obamacare and reportedly said the landmark 1973 case that made abortion legal was wrong.

Healthcare has become a top issue for many Americans amid the COVID-19 pandemic which has killed more than 220,000 people.

The issue of Supreme Court nominations has become a central election issue ahead of the November 3, with Trump pressing Democratic candidate Joe Biden to say whether he would change the number of justices on the court — a practice called “packing the court” — if the Democrats win the presidency and the Senate.

The number of justices on the Supreme Court was set at nine (one chief justice and eight associate judges) in 1869, a couple of years after the country’s Civil War.

Biden told CBS News last week that if elected, he would put together a national bipartisan commission to give recommendations for reforming the court, which he called “out of whack”.

“Presidents come and go; Supreme Court justices stay for generations,” Biden said.



Source link

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • More
  • Pinterest
  • Telegram
  • Email
Tags: euronews
Share30Tweet19
Previous Post

‘I went to school and woke up in intensive care’

Next Post

New job adverts plummet across UK with Aberdeen suffering massive 75% drop

souhaib

Recommended For You

Angela Merkel given Moderna as second COVID-19 jab after having AstraZeneca as first injection

by souhaib
June 22, 2021
0

Angela Merkel has received the Moderna vaccine has her second inoculation against COVID-19 having had the AstraZeneca jab as her first dose, the German Chancellor"s office said on...

Read more

German stadiums to display rainbow colours during Hungary match in defiance of UEFA ban

by souhaib
June 22, 2021
0

German stadiums will display rainbow colours during the country"s match against Hungary at the European Championship on Wednesday after UEFA rejected host city Munich's plan to do the...

Read more

Taliban take key Afghan district, adding to string of gains

by souhaib
June 22, 2021
0

Taliban fighters took control of a key district in Afghanistan"s northern Kunduz province on Monday and encircled the provincial capital, police said, as the insurgent group added to...

Read more

WHO expresses concern over eased restrictions at EURO 2020 matches

by souhaib
June 22, 2021
0

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday expressed concern about the easing of restrictions by some of the EURO 2020 host countries.The UN agency, which refused to name...

Read more

Northern Ireland: DUP leader-to-be Jeffrey Donaldson calls for ‘decisive action’ on Brexit protocol

by souhaib
June 22, 2021
0

Northern Ireland"s largest political party, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), is to choose Sir Jeffrey Donaldson as its new leader -- after a turbulent period in which it...

Read more
Next Post

New job adverts plummet across UK with Aberdeen suffering massive 75% drop

No Result
View All Result

Recent Posts

  • 10 incredible sites you should take a look at for one particular-working day tour from Hanoi
  • Fuel price protests: Drivers face disruption as fuel protesters plan motorway rolling roadblocks
  • NBA: Lamar Odom: “Kobe Bryant appears to me in dreams”
  • Assault on Capitol: Trump, naked | Opinion
  • Where to watch the 4th of July fireworks show in the US

Browse by Category

  • Australia
  • Automotive
  • Business
  • Celebrity
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Deals
  • Economie
  • Education
  • Euro
  • Forex
  • Gaming
  • Health
  • Life Style
  • NBA
  • News
  • Reviews
  • Sports
  • Switzerland
  • Trending
  • U.S.
  • Uncategorized

Categories

  • Australia
  • Automotive
  • Business
  • Celebrity
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Deals
  • Economie
  • Education
  • Euro
  • Forex
  • Gaming
  • Health
  • Life Style
  • NBA
  • News
  • Reviews
  • Sports
  • Switzerland
  • Trending
  • U.S.
  • Uncategorized

Pages

  • Contact US
  • Newsletter
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions

© 2021 - TrendsWide

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Contact US
  • Privacy Policy
  • Trending
  • U.S.
  • Economie
  • Deals
  • Reviews
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Health
  • Life Style
  • NBA

© 2021 - TrendsWide