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    The senate is now in closed session. Does anyone know why?

    https://twitter.com/SenateCloakroom/...84119320776705

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    It was a move by Schumer, but it's open again.

    McConnell has filed cloture on Barrett's nomination.

    https://twitter.com/SenateCloakroom/...356382209?s=19
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    Lisa Murkowski now says she’ll vote YES on the final vote to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.

    She says she remains procedurally opposed to moving this nomination but laments that she has lost that fight, and that she thinks Barrett is qualified for the job.

    https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/statu...86502316134400
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    The Senate has invoked cloture in a 51-48 vote.

    https://twitter.com/SenateCloakroom/...183054336?s=19
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    If Barrett is confirmed, that will bolster Trump's campaign and potential re-election for a second term. Barrett will have her first execution within weeks of seating in the U.S. Supreme Court.

    Barrett is to be confirmed and expected to be sworn in by Justice Clarence Thomas 6.00pm ET at a ceremony at the White House.

    53-46 in favor of confirmation, set for 7.30pm ET. Senator Kamala Harris did not vote.
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    She was only confirmed just now, and the vote was 52-48.

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    Yep. Collins was a nay. The 53-46 vote earlier was a vote to reject Chuck Schumer's last ditch attempt to recess the Senate and stop the confirmation.
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    Barrett to join Supreme Court arguments for the first time

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Amy Coney Barrett is expected to join her Supreme Court colleagues on Monday to hear arguments for the first time.

    Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the high court began hearing cases by phone in May. That means the public won’t see the new justice, but they’ll be able to hear her if she asks questions, as all her colleagues have been doing. Also because of the pandemic, the court has been allowing the public to listen to arguments in real time, a change from the past.

    Participating in oral arguments will be among the first things Barrett will do after being confirmed last week in a 52-48 virtual party-line vote, with Republicans overpowering Democrats to install President Donald Trump’s third Supreme Court nominee.

    She did not participate in decisions the high court issued last week involving extended timelines for receiving and counting ballots in Pennsylvania and North Carolina because of the need for a quick resolution and “because she has not had time to fully review the parties’ filings,” the court’s spokeswoman said in a statement. But her vote also wouldn’t have changed the outcome in either case.

    The two cases Barrett will hear Monday are relatively low-profile, a dispute involving the Freedom of Information Act and another involving disability benefits for railroad employees. On Tuesday, however, as the country finishes voting, the court’s cases include one about sentencing young people to life without parole. And on Wednesday, the day after Election Day, the court hears a case that involves a clash of LGBTQ rights and religious freedoms in a major swing state, Pennsylvania.

    Next week brings a case that could threaten the Affordable Care Act, one that was front and center during Barrett’s confirmation hearings last month. Democrats claimed that the Obama-era health law, known as “Obamacare,” would be in jeopardy if Barrett joined the court. Trump has urged the court to overturn the law.

    The justices have said they will continue to hear cases by phone through at least December. So it’s unclear when Barrett will move in to her offices at the court, taking over the space of her predecessor, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

    On Monday, Chief Justice John Roberts is expected to offer a traditional, short welcome, to Barrett before arguments begin, wishing her “a long and happy career in our common calling.” And the court will have a typical two hours of argument in two cases.

    The pandemic has upended other traditions. If the justices were in their courtroom, Barrett would join her colleagues in a round of handshakes before taking the bench, a tradition every time the justices meet for argument or their private conference that was suspended months ago because of the pandemic. Spectators would see her emerge from behind the court’s red curtains and take a seat on the far right hand side of the bench, the junior-most justice’s seat. She would be seated next to Justice Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s first nominee to the court.

    And while arguments in the courtroom are a free-for-all, with justices constantly jumping in with questions, the court’s phone-arguments are more orderly. Each justice gets to ask each lawyer questions in order of seniority. As the junior justice, Barrett will ask her questions last.

    https://apnews.com/article/donald-tr...1af9769a85a411
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    With Republicans now certain of 48 Senators, + Tillis in North Carolina being pretty sure of reelection, both Georgia senators have to win in their run offs to keep Republican control over the Senate.

    A 50-50 Senate means the new vice-president will break any tie that may arise. It seems this may be Harris.

    What are the expectations on the Georgia run offs? If Trump does lose Georgia, then perhaps these GOP senators do not have much chance.

    Also, what are the expectations on packing Scotus in case the Republicans do not obtain a majority in the Senate? Some Democratic candidate senators (such as Kelly and Sinema, Arizona) have indicated that they wouldn't want to see court-packing, but of course that was before the elections.
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    I don’t think Loeffler will win, I think Warnock will get her seat.
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