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  • Republicans celebrated the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U S Supreme Court on Monday.

  • Her lifetime C is a major last minute political victory for President Donald Trump.

  • No nominee to the Supreme Court has ever been confirmed by the Senate this close to a presidential election.

  • Baron is Trump's third appointee, and she cement a 6 to 3 conservative majority on the high court.

  • It is highly fitting that Justice Barrett fills the seat of a true pioneer for women.

  • It's Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

  • Hi, Amy Coney Barrett, You solemnly swear.

  • Barrett was sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas after a vote in the Republican controlled Senate that approved her along party lines 52 to 48 Onley.

  • One Republican, Susan Collins of Maine, opposed to the confirmation Monday ceremony.

  • Saum, or people wear masks and seats being spread out to ensure social distancing in stark contrast to bear its nomination just one month ago.

  • That event has since been linked to a cove in 19 outbreak among some Republican lawmakers, and it also proceeded Trump's own infection.

  • This is the most rank hypocrisy I've ever seen in anything politically, but many Democrats, including Senator Brian Schatz, continued to rail against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell during the debate over Baird's confirmation.

  • Schatz pointed to 2016 when McConnell refused to hold the Senate vote for President Obama's Supreme Court pick, Merrick Garland.

  • Ah, full eight months before the presidential contest.

  • Inside of this body, your word is supposed to count for something.

  • It's not supposed to be about the maximal use of power and tricking each other and tricking the public.

  • Barrett, a favorite of Christian conservatives, has criticized previous rulings upholding the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare.

  • But she said during her hearing she had no agenda to invalidate the measure, something Democrats say would result in millions of Americans losing health insurance.

Republicans celebrated the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U S Supreme Court on Monday.

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