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The President of the United States, Donald Trump, wants to reassign the Supreme Court before the presidential election on November 3. Candidate Amy Coney Barrett will be voted on Thursday in the US Senate Judiciary Committee.
Now, the American Democrats have announced a boycott of the meeting. The committee’s Democratic lawmakers said Wednesday they did not want to further legitimize the Republican-led process. The panel meeting is an intermediate step before the Senate vote on Barrett, scheduled for next Monday.
A seat on the Supreme Court was vacated after liberal justice icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg died of cancer in September at the age of 87. Under Trump’s will, Conservative Judge Barrett will be successful. The judges of the Supreme Court are appointed by the President and appointed by the Senate.
Blocking Democrats with little chance of success
But Barrett’s personality causes controversy: With Barrett’s appointment, Republicans would expand their majority to six of the nine Supreme Court seats. Democrats surrounding presidential candidate Joe Biden demand that only the winner of the election should decide on Ginsburg’s successor. Whoever sits on the Supreme Court repeatedly sets the course for American society. The court often has the final say in controversial cases like abortion rights, health care, and immigration policies.
It is unclear if the Democrats’ lockdown on the Justice Committee will be successful. Of the 22 members of the committee, twelve are Republicans. With their boycott, Democrats could only hamper a vote on Barrett if someone from the Republican majority also stayed away from the meeting. So far there has been no evidence of this.
