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UPDATE, 6:36 PM PT: Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice at another White House ceremony amid the pandemic. Unlike her introduction ceremony in September, which became a “super-spreader event” in the words of Dr. Anthony Fauci, most of the attendees in the crowd on the South Lawn wore masks and…

Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court will likely be finalized Monday night after it cleared its last procedural hurdle today. The Senate vote today was split 51-48 along partisan lines. GOP Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine joined Democrats in voting against limiting…

The Senate Judiciary Committee gave the greenlight to Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court, even as Democrats boycotted the vote. Barrett’s nomination now heads to the Senate floor, with a vote scheduled for next week, where she is expected to be confirmed by a narrow majority. Instead of appearing at…

Bill Maher lit into Amy Coney Barrett and the Catholic Church, saying the prospective Supreme Court justice has been “”groomed since birth” to overturn Roe v. Wade. As the Real Time host began tonight’s show-ending monologue about Barrett, he joked that he had nothing against Catholics “except my entire upbringing.&#8221…

UPDATED with latest: The Senate Judiciary Committee will continue its Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday at 9 a.m. ET/6 a.m. PT at the Hart Senate Office Building at the U.S. Capitol. It is the last of four scheduled days of hearings by the Republican-led Senate panel to confirm…

Trevor Noah told viewers not to bother watching the Supreme Court hearings for the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett. “Please don’t waste your time because over the years, these hearings have become each party making big speeches about how the nominee’s going to save or destroy the party and then the nominee pretends…

The long, repetitive confirmation hearing of Judge Amy Coney Barrett wound down on Tuesday with one of the more consequential interactions: questioning from Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), the vice presidential nominee. Harris devoted much of her time to highlighting the potential impact that Barrett’s ascension to the…

Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing on Tuesday played out almost exactly how you would expect. As recent nominees before her have done, she avoided committing to a view on an array of different hotbed issues, including the Affordable Care Act, which is pending before the court next month; gun rights and…

A highlight of the opening day of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination was how committee member and vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris would frame Democratic opposition. To start, Harris attacked the idea of even holding a hearing amid the COVID-19 epidemic and…

The start of Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing on Monday has already attracted protests outside the Capitol, including a group of women dressed in the red habits borrowed from the television adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale. Barrett is expected to offer praise for her mentor, the late Justice Antonin Scalia…

John Oliver returned to his desk after a month-long break – and an Emmy win – to focus on the furor in Washington over Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s successor. He offered few jokes in between his long-winded objection over Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett. Oliver started his segment with the GOP’s efforts to rush the…

President Donald Trump formally announced Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a move that will solidify the high court’s turn to the right. An appellate judge since 2017, Barrett appeared at a White House Rose Garden ceremony on Saturday along…