Thread by @RepAdamSmith

Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation to the highest court in the land is a direct threat to:

➡️The Affordable Care Act,
➡️Protections for people with pre-existing conditions,
➡️Civil rights,
➡️Election security,
➡️Reproductive rights,
➡️LGBTQ+ rights,
➡️The environment, and more.

American families and businesses desperately need a COVID-19 relief bill, not a Supreme Court Justice whose career reflects a willingness to strip these rights, protections, and health care they need in the middle of a pandemic.

9 months before the 2016 election, McConnell said that a Supreme Court nominee should not be appointed and confirmed during an election year. Yet mere weeks before the 2020 election, Senate Republicans decided that they must confirm the late Justice Ginsburg’s replacement.

Senate Republicans purported to act on principle when they refused even to grant Judge Garland a hearing—if there was ever any doubt, we now know definitively that they are more than willing to abandon principle when it no longer suits them.

Despite Republican efforts to distract from their capitulation to the virus by rushing to confirm Justice Barrett, I will continue to fight alongside my colleagues to deliver relief for the American people.

Read my full statement here: adamsmith.house.gov/press-releases…