Amy Connie Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing will begin Monday, Oct. 12, Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) said Saturday night.
Graham announced the hearing four hours after the president announced it at the Rose Garden ceremony.
Justice Ruth Bader is sure to have a controversial process to fill the vacancy in the courtroom of Ginsberg, who died on September 18, before she sits before President Trump’s nominated Senate Judiciary Committee.
Although expedited, the process will follow the same structure as the previous two confirmation hearings of the Supreme Court under the Trump administration, Graham told Fox News.
That means Barrett’s hearing will last four days, during which he will deliver inaugural statements from senators, field questions and hear testimony from outside witnesses.
“The nominee will be challenged, and the nominee deserves to be challenged, but he will be blown away if he behaves like Judge Barrett, like Judge Kavanagh. [Democrats’] “Face the big time,” Graham said.
Trump said of his choice at the Rose Garden ceremony, “Amy Connie Barrett will make a decision based on the cases written based on the text of the Constitution.”
“It takes courage to be a judge,” said Amy. You are not there to decide the case but to do your duty and the law will follow you wherever you go. ”
Barrett’s appointment, which will be Trump’s third in the Supreme Court, will put the Supreme Court in a crucial group.
Democrats are furious with the Republican-controlled Senate, calling its leaders contradictory and ambiguous.
Majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-K.) Refused to allow President Barack Obama’s Ascot nomination, Judge Merrick Garland, to be considered after the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016, because it was an election year.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D.C. Conn.), A member of the Judiciary Committee, said he would break the committee’s tradition and not meet with Barrett.
“I refuse to consider this process legal and will not meet with Judge Amy Connie Barrett.” He wrote on Twitter, Warning that its confirmation could pave the way for a legal rollback to the right to abortion and health care.
Graham, Trump and other Republicans have hailed Barrett as a top legal scholar and a first-class graduate of Notre Dame Law School.
Trump joked at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday night that he should run for president.
When Fox host Jeanne Piro asked Graham if he thought Democrats would boycott the hearing outright, he laughed.
“Well, he’ll make it fast,” Graham joked.
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