NEW: Sens. Leahy, Booker & Harris press Judiciary Chair Graham *not to proceed with Supreme Court confirmation hearings next week unless stringent COVID-19 testing procedures are implemented immediately* via @JulieNBCNews
Pointing out that two Judiciary Committee members have tested positive for COVID-19 and others have thus far refused to be tested, the senators told Graham that without testing procedures in place, the hearings could threaten the safety and health of all who attend in person.
Several of the committee members are elderly: Feinstein, Leahy, Grassley to name just a few.

Further it was just a week ago the committee held an extended indoor hearing in which COVID positive @SenMikeLee was seen speaking w/o a mask.

Rs say they kept their distance.
And Sen. Cornyn, who sat next to Lee, just tested negative:



Cornyn's office says he kept six feet away. Still, COVID can incubate for up to 14 days.

Here is new CDC guidelines on aerosol transmission, 1 of 3 ways COVID is transmitted:
"Airborne transmission is infection spread through exposure to those virus-containing respiratory droplets comprised of smaller droplets and particles that can remain suspended in the air over long distances (usually greater than 6 feet) and time (typically hours)."
This was the meeting.

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NEW to @NBCNews

Barrett disclosure did not include work for troubled hospital group

Dems say it underscores a rushed process, as it involves among largest nonprofit bankruptcies in U.S. history.

Barrett didn't consider her role "significant."

nbcnews.com/politics/meet-…
Barrett was required, per the questionnaire, to list the “10 most significant litigated matters which you personally handled, whether or not you were the attorney of record” and to “describe in detail the nature of your participation.” Barrett lists just three cases.
A source familiar with Barrett’s work history said her client had “filed only two even arguably substantive filings after she appeared as counsel,” so the work “is not a significant level of involvement.”

Still, in two of the three cases Barrett lists,
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When @GovWhitmer talks about a "rallying cry" and the danger of Trump's words, here's a timeline:

1. April 16, around 3,000 protesters, some of them also armed and chanting "Lock Her Up," descended on Lansing for “Operation Gridlock,” causing a massive traffic jam.
2. A day later, on April 17, Trump tweets "liberate Michigan"

3. April 30: "State Sen. Polehanki tweets: Directly above me, men with rifles yelling at us. Some of my colleagues who own bullet proof vests are wearing them."

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8 Oct
NEW: The FBI thwarted what they described as a plot to violently overthrow the government and kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

The alleged plot involved reaching out to members of a Michigan militia, according to a federal affidavit filed Thursday.
detroitnews.com/story/news/loc…
Federal prosecutors are expected to discuss the alleged conspiracy later Thursday.
Also worth noting:

The Michigan State Capitol Commission recently voted down two proposals to impose weapons bans in the state capital building -- weeks after militia members packing semiautomatics stormed the grounds.

mlive.com/public-interes…
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2 Oct
👉Important below on the experimental antibody cocktail given to Trump.

Physician from Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School:

👉LISTEN TO THE VOICE MEMO
Faust: "I'm very concerned about the president's team giving him an unvetted, untested treatment. This has not been shown to work in clinical trials."

"People will see this and they'll think this is the treatment you should have... In reality that's not the case. ..
We should not be giving the president this medication until it's been proven to work. We should not be giving it to anybody."

"These treatments can have side effects that are really, really serious. We need people to know that.... It's a setback for science."
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NEW: Judge Amy Coney Barrett failed to disclose to the Judiciary Committee her participation in a 2006 two-page ad in the South Bend Times calling for Roe v. Wade to be overturned and ending the “barbaric legacy” of the law, two Democratic committee aides confirm to NBC News
Victoria Nourse of Georgetown Law was special counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee and went through the same disclosure process when President Obama nominated her to the 7th circuit court.

“She should have disclosed it,” said Nourse. “In my experience,
I would have had to do it,” especially when it pertains to a contentious issue likely to come before the court.

The paperwork requirements for judicial nominees are very specific and strict. It look months to fill them out, she said. “You’re supposed to give anything you
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23 Sep
👉Senate historical records dating to 1900 reviewed by @NBCNews:

No president has seated a Supreme Court nominee within 3 months of an election.

👉A confirmation weeks before Election Day would be first in modern history.

(Trump says he wants a vote before election day.)
The closest comparison would be Wilson’s successful confirmation of John Clarke in July of 1916.

Pres. historian John Meacham: McConnell “invented” a rule to block Obama’s 2016 nominee & now his premise for moving forward – bcz Rs control the Senate -- is “equally invented.”
“The moment we’re in," he added, "is about the acquisition and use of power. It’s not driven by constitutional principle or practice. The more honest we are about that better.”

While there’ve been a number of confirmations to the high court in election years,
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