Thread by @jbendery

Good morning! ☕️ Senators' time is up for Qs with Amy Coney Barrett and the Judiciary committee will vote to send her nomination to the Senate floor on Oct. 22 at 1 pm.

Also this exchange happened last night, so... yeah.

https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/1316521020522729473

Sen. Mike Lee is currently raising his voice about the "abominable treatment" of Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing.

Were we watching the same hearing? He shouted, wailed, lashed out at members of the committee, straight up lied about little and big things.

"Y'all have a good chance of winning the White House," Lindsey Graham tells Democrats on the Judiciary Committee.

How long til Trump trashes Graham?

Lindsey Graham keeps saying he supported Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan because they were qualified, even if he would have picked someone else. Says Dems won't do the same for Barrett.

That argument falls pretty flat after the way he treated Merrick Garland.

John Cornyn is feigning confusion about why Dems are angry about Barrett being confirmed.

Here is John Cornyn in March 2016 when he blocked Obama's SCOTUS pick Merrick Garland from getting a hearing or a vote, saying it's wrong to confirm a SCOTUS pick in a prez election year.

"I recognize this goose is pretty much cooked," says Cory Booker on Barrett's confirmation.

Notes some "troubling things" he's heard in the hearing, like Barrett evading Qs on race. "Surprising" she refused to answer Qs about if she believes in a peaceful transfer of power.

The Judiciary committee just voted on a motion by Sen. Blumenthal to adjourn Barrett's confirmation hearing until after the election.

It failed, of course. Along party lines.

The committee's done with talking about itself now.

Now it will hear from panels of people supporting and opposing Barrett's confirmation.

Ted Cruz promptly heads to the cameras in the hallway outside the hearing to talk about the NY Post story on the Bidens, Twitter and communist China.

Josh Hawley just accused Facebook and Twitter of trying to rig the presidential election -- feeding right into Trump's grand plan to try to delegitimize the election as he looks on track to lose.

GOP senators love to rip the American Bar Assn as a bunch of liberals when they give a bad rating to a Trump judicial nominee.

But behold! The ABA gave Barrett a "very well-qualified" rating and its lead evaluator is one of the GOP's chosen speakers in today's hearing.

I covered the TX Lege for a few years. I've covered Congress for 13.

Watching Barrett's hearing, I'm reminded of a constant I've seen w/ GOPers in a majority: their emphasis on decorum + collegiality as they push thru policies that will hurt women, ppl of color + low-income ppl.

John Cornyn says Amy Coney Barrett "understands diversity" because she adopted two children from Haiti.

"I don't think she needs to have anybody preaching to her about the importance of diversity."