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Senate Committee Approves Amy Coney Barrett’s Nomination To Supreme Court

The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved Donald Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, allowing the full Senate to vote on her nomination.

All 12 Republicans on the committee voted in favour of Barrett’s appointment, and all 10 Democrats on the committee – including Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) – boycotted the vote.

“We will not grant this process any further legitimacy by participating in a committee markup of this nomination just twelve days before the culmination of an election that is already underway,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

Donald Trump has said that he wants Barrett to be approved and sworn in as a Supreme Court justice before the November 3 elections so that she can rule on matters related to the election and how ballots are counted.

“This has been a sham process from the beginning,” said a statement from the Senate Democrats on Barrett’s nomination. “Amidst a global pandemic and ongoing election, Republicans are rushing to confirm a Supreme Court Justice to take away health care from millions and execute the extreme and deeply unpopular agenda that they’ve been unable to get through Congress.”

Schumer is expected to announce that Democrats will boycott the full Senate vote on Barrett’s nomination, calling her views “so far out of the mainstream.”

“We’re not giving the quorum they need to provide [a vote on Barrett’s nomination]. The rules require it,” Schumer said.

As ‘LGBTQ Nation’ reports, Barrett is 48-years-old and could serve on the high court for several decades. Although she hasn’t ruled on major LGBT+ rights cases, Barrett has a history of anti-LGBT+ comments. In 2015, she signed a letter opposing marriage equality, which said that it goes against the Catholic teaching on “the meaning of human sexuality, the significance of sexual difference and the complementarity of men and women.”


In a 2016 panel discussion, Barrett said that the idea that federal civil rights laws that ban discrimination “because of sex” also ban discrimination against trans people – who face discrimination because their sex assigned at birth does not align with their gender identity – is a “strain the text” of federal law. 

At her Senate confirmation hearings last week, she repeatedly referred to sexual orientation as “sexual preference,” which suggests she believes sexual orientation can be changed. She also refused to say whether or not she believes LGBT+ people are entitled to the same due process and equal protection rights as straight, cisgender people when it comes to marriage.

She also served as the trustee of a religious school system that bans LGBT+ students, parents, and faculty, teaching that homosexuality is an “abomination” and that gay men “rightly” go to hell when they die.




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