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Amy Coney Barrett arrives at the U.S. Capitol with Vice President Mike Pence to begin meeting with Mitch McConnell prior to the start of her confirmation, September 29, 2020 Following Trump's formal nomination of Barrett, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham announced that committee hearings on the nomination would begin October ...
(Reuters) -The U.S. Senate's Democratic majority began a crusade on Tuesday to confirm as many new federal judges nominated by President Joe Biden as possible to avoid leaving vacancies that ...
McConnell invoked the nuclear option to eliminate the 60-vote requirement to end a filibuster for Supreme Court nominations, after his predecessor Harry Reid had eliminated the filibuster for all other presidential nominations; Trump subsequently won Supreme Court confirmation battles over Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.
Confirmation date Confirmation vote Began active service [5] Ended active service Ended senior status 1: M. Miller Baker: June 18, 2018 [Rn 2] August 1, 2019: voice vote [IT 1] December 18, 2019: Incumbent – 2: Timothy M. Reif: June 18, 2018 [Rn 2] August 1, 2019: voice vote [IT 2] August 8, 2019: Incumbent – 3: Stephen Vaden: October 17 ...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spent a year prepping his Republican colleagues for this moment, telling them the confirmation of a Supreme Court justice is the “most important” vote ...
Donald Trump met with President Biden on Wednesday and ... The 63-year-old Thune will succeed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, ... which has sole control over confirmation of the Cabinet ...
The confirmation process for Trump's nominee Senator Jeff Sessions was described as "strikingly contentious" by The New York Times; [151] as Senator Mitch McConnell invoked Rule XIX to silence Senator Elizabeth Warren for the rest of the consideration of the nomination. While explaining his use of the rule, McConnell said, "She [Warren] was warned.
A longtime member of the Senate leadership team and McConnell’s right-hand man, Thune, 63, would likely focus on maintaining party unity and advancing a traditional conservative platform—tax ...