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13 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Senators question Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett in confirmation hearing pscp.tv/w/clRKkTF4a2pE…
Amy Coney Barett faces the first of two days of direct questioning from senators

Democrats will try to make the case that her confirmation would threaten healthcare for millions of Americans reut.rs/3iRB0aB
Supreme Court nominee Barrett declines to say if the ruling that legalized abortion was wrongly decided.

Watch live 👇pscp.tv/w/clRUUTF4a2pE…
Barrett declines to say if she will step aside from Trump election cases but says she would follow recusal rules reut.rs/3iRB0aB

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15 Oct
The #election2020 could be the most closely contested in recent memory due to a deeply divided electorate and the possibility that President Trump will challenge widely used mail-in ballots. Here's an explainer on 'dueling electors' reut.rs/341ceRl 👇 1/6 Image
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14 Oct
Senate panel continues hearing on Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett pscp.tv/w/clWcCDF4a2pE…
Barrett, a conservative federal appellate judge who is the Republican president’s third selection for a lifetime job on the top U.S. judicial body, begins the third day of her four-day confirmation hearing reut.rs/3nJXcat
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12 Oct
Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s nominee for a lifetime job on the U.S. Supreme Court, has served as a federal appeals court judge since 2017. Here are some of her notable legal opinions 👇 reut.rs/3dlZDva via @JanNWolfe 1/5
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Barrett indicated support for expansive gun rights in an opinion dissenting from a 7th Circuit ruling regarding gun ownership by people convicted of serious crimes. She considered a challenge to a federal law that bars people convicted of felonies from owning guns 3/5
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12 Oct
The head of Nigeria’s police dissolved its Special Anti-Robbery Squad with immediate effect, a police statement said, prompted by days of protests across the country against alleged brutality by the controversial unit reut.rs/3jPXeLq 1/5 by @alexisak and Abraham Achirga
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