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      Amy Coney Barrett takes oath after being confirmed to US supreme court – video

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      A majority of US senators have voted to confirm Donald Trump’s supreme court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. ‘On this vote, the yays are 52. The nays are 48,’ announced US senator Chuck Grassley. Trump then held a celebratory swearing-in ceremony on the White House lawn. Barrett said. ‘I will do my job without any fear or favour and … I will do so independently of both the political branches and of my own preferences.’ Lawmakers voted along party lines, although Republican Susan Collins of Maine joined Democrats to vote against Barrett’s confirmation. Barrett, 48, will secure a 6-to-3 conservative majority on the nation’s highest court. Long term, her appointment could have a major impact on a range of policies governing abortion rights, immigration and LGBTQ+ rights
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      Democrats refuse to participate as Amy Coney Barrett nomination advanced – video

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      Amy Coney Barrett’s supreme court nomination was advanced by a unilateral Republican vote to the full Senate despite Democrats’ refusal to participate in the Senate judiciary committee hearing for what they called a ‘naked power grab’.
      Democratic senators stood outside the Capital and boycotted the vote to install Donald Trump’s third supreme court nominee less than two weeks before the election.
      No supreme court nominee has ever been installed so close to a presidential election and, just four years ago, the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, and senator Lindsey Graham, who now chairs the judiciary committee, said that installing a nominee in an election year would be a shameful defiance of the will of voters
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      Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer clash on supreme court nomination – video

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      Mitch McConnell, the Republican US Senate majority leader, said Donald Trump’s supreme court nominee would see a vote ‘this year’ as he clashed with the Democratic minority leader, Chuck Schumer.
      The supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday, prompting Trump and McConnell to announced their intention to fill her seat as quickly as possible.
      Schumer said McConnell’s kind words on Ginsburg would be ‘meaningless’ if he replaced her despite her wish that the process of filling her seat not begin ‘until a new president is installed’
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      Senate Democrats and Republicans clash over police reform bill vote

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      Democrats Schumer, Booker and Harris sent McConnell a letter urging him not to hold procedural vote this week on bill Chuck Schumer speaks at the US Capitol in Washington DC, on 16 June. Photograph: Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock Senate Democrats have signaled they will block a Republican police reform bill that critics say offers a “woefully […] More

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      Coronavirus US live: Trump demands churches, synagogues and mosques reopen 'right now'

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      President threatens to override governors if they don’t comply Man seen jumping the fence at the White House Biden draws criticism for saying voters who back Trump ‘ain’t black’ Pictures show Trump wearing mask after Ford factory row Coronavirus – latest global updates Get a fresh perspective on America – sign up to our First […] More

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      John Roberts calls Schumer’s remarks on justices ‘dangerous’ in rare rebuke

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      Schumer spoke about Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh outside court while high-profile abortion case was being argued The chief justice of the US supreme court has taken the unusual step of criticizing as “inappropriate” and “dangerous” comments that the Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, made about conservative justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. Related: The […] More

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      Donald Trump's defence team sets out argument in impeachment trial – video

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      Play Video The US president’s legal team has set out its argument in a three-hour session on the fifth day of the impeachment proceedings against him. The White House counsel, Pat Cipollone, argued nothing Trump did in withholding aid to Ukraine merited impeachment. The Democrat leader, Chuck Schumer, said the legal team ‘did not do a good job’ ‘The […] More