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UPDATED with latest: The Senate Judiciary Committee will continue its Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett on Wednesday at 9 a.m. ET/6 a.m. PT at the Hart Senate Office ...
From 1975 until 2017, the threshold needed to invoke cloture for Supreme Court confirmation was three-fifths of all senators duly chosen and sworn-in (60 senators, if there was no more than one seat left vacant). [2] On April 7, 2017, the votes of Democratic senators managed to deny enough support for cloture on the nomination of Neil Gorsuch.
[29] [34] The committee did not hold hearings on another Supreme Court nominee until February 1916, when intense opposition arose against the nomination of Louis Brandeis to become an associate justice. There were 19 days of public hearings altogether; the Senate ultimately voted to confirm Brandeis in June 1916. [35] [36]
Live updates provided by theGrio‘s Gerren Keith Gaynor, Managing Editor of Politics and Washington Correspondent, and Natasha S. Alford, Senior The post LIVE UPDATES DAY 1: Confirmation Hearing ...
The On the Move panel discuss the first day of Supreme Court Hearings to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.
The confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson began Monday on Capitol Hill. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290 ...
The Senate ultimately confirmed Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court by a 54–45 vote on April 7, 2017 (all Republicans and three Democrats voted in his favor). Ten days after his confirmation, Gorsuch heard his first case as the 101st associate justice of the Court, in Anthony Perry vs. Merit Systems Protection Board .
The Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson continued Wednesday with another marathon round of questioning from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.