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Chad Pergram

12 Oct, 8 tweets, 1 min read

A) 2020 election tactics are on display at Barrett's confirmation hearing.

B) Senate Republicans are repeatedly blasting Democrats for attacking Barrett’s faith. This stems from questions and reservations Democrats posed to Barrett when she was nominated for the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in 2017.

C) Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee proclaimed “the dogma lives loudly within you” at the 2017 hearing.

D) The nomination of Barrett helped stoke the GOP’s conservative base to start with. Suggesting that Barrett’s faith is an issue for Democrats further helps this cause on the right.

Barrett cited “the power of prayer” during her opening statement.

E) Meantime, Democrats have embraced two policies which work well for them: health care and the Trump Administration’s handling of coronavirus. Democrats hauled out placards of various constituents who have pre-existing conditions or have benefitted from Obamacare.

F) The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear an Obamacare case on November 10. Democrats hope to link the health care/coronavirus issue to Barrett, suggesting she would vote to further undermine the Affordable Care Act.

G) Democrats hope that tactic scares voters – and creates a problem for Republicans with challenging re-election bids: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and GOP Judiciary Committee members....

H)....Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX), Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Joni Ernst (R-IA), By the same token, Democrats hope the health care/coronavirus issue works against Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). She has already expressed concern about moving a nomination so close to an election.

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1) Feinstein witnesses for Day 4 of Barrett hrng: Stacy Staggs, a mother of 7-year old twins. Stacy’s twins have multiple pre-existing conditions due to their premature birth and rely on the Affordable Care Act’s protections.

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1) It’s like opposite day on a potential coronavirus bill. Or the Twilight Zone.

Nothing makes sense right now.

2) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) have different problems. McConnell has a conference which either doesn’t want to do another coronavirus bill – or wants to do the bare minimum.

3) But McConnell’s putting a narrow coronavirus bill on the floor next week. Pelosi has a caucus which wants to do another coronavirus bill. But Pelosi isn’t budging.

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13 Oct

1) Just a few days ago, President Trump declared an end to coronavirus talks. But the talks kept going – despite the President’s admonition. President Trump also said there would not be an effort to do a coronavirus bill until after the election.

2) then the President abruptly switched course. Mr. Trump also said he asked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to focus instead on confirming Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.

3) Now McConnell says the Senate will attempt to tackle some sort of “targeted” coronavirus bill sometime after October 19, but before they put the Barrett nomination on the floor toward the end of the month.

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12 Oct

1) The presence of a “quroum” is usually not an issue for Senate committees or the Senate itself to conduct business.

2) But issues of whether or not the Judiciary Committee has the presence of more than half of its members to constitute a quorum could impact how quickly the Senate can move the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court.

3) Moreover, the physical presence of senators is required on the Senate floor itself to vote. Senators cannot vote remotely unlike the House of Representatives. The House set up a remote voting regimen to cope with the pandemic in the spring.

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12 Oct

1) GOP LA Sen Kennedy works in references to movies Star Wars, Rosemary’s Baby, The Blues Brothers and O Brother, Where Art Thou? in opening statement at Barrett hearing, all homages to American cinema

2) Kennedy starts with a reference to the song “The Big Rock Candy Mountains” which was featured in “O Brother, Where Art Thou.” Kennedy says the confirmation process isn’t supposed to be “The Big Rock Candy Mountains.”

3) That’s a song about a Xanadu on Earth “where handouts grow on bushes” and “streams of alcohol come trickling down the rocks.”

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12 Oct

1) What is past is prologue.

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2) That in turn sets the tables for hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. Days before an election. The High Court is poised to swing well to the conservative side of the ledger.

3) The controversy of a breakneck confirmation process, augmented by how Senate Republicans dissed President Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court in 2016, Merrick Garland.

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