Sahil Kapur

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur

New: Senate leaders reach agreement on $10 billion for Covid relief efforts IN: Vaccines, therapeutics and testing capacity. OUT: Money for global pandemic response. Announced today by @SenSchumer and @MittRomney. w/ @JulieNBCNews: https://t.co/lYTLOhMnC5 — PolitiTweet.org

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Apart from Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted today on advancing two Biden-nominated circuit judges and three district judges. All of them will move to the floor for consideration and votes at a time of @SenSchumer's choosing. — PolitiTweet.org

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NEWS: Senate Judiciary Committee votes 11-11 on Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court. All Democrats vote YES All Republicans vote NO Next: Democratic leaders "discharge" the nomination to the floor for consideration by the full Senate. — PolitiTweet.org

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Alex Padilla has arrived. Judiciary Committee voting NOW on Ketanji Brown Jackson for SCOTUS. https://t.co/V9IFuVZjCS — PolitiTweet.org

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so Pat what did you really think of the new BATMAN? https://t.co/NyoNbVY2vL — PolitiTweet.org

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And so @SenatorDurbin recesses the Judiciary Committee, subject to call of the chair, and says they'll vote when @SenAlexPadilla returns. Once it deadlocks, Senate will move quickly to begin "discharging" the Jackson nomination to the floor for consideration. — PolitiTweet.org

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Judiciary Cmte is split 11-11 between the parties and, due to unanimous Republican opposition, Democrats need all their members to vote in order to send KBJ's nomination to the floor. Durbin says in an earlier day one minority member might vote present in a "pairing." Not today. — PolitiTweet.org

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After every Judiciary Cmte senator speaks, Durbin takes the mic: "We have a problem." He says Sen. Alex Padilla's flight to DC had a medical emergency and forced him back to Los Angeles. He says Padilla will return this afternoon and committee can't vote on KBJ until he's back. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@SenJohnKennedy: "I found Judge Jackson to be smart, well versed in the law and — how can I put this — extraordinarily deft and artful in her ability to speak at length without saying anything of substance on critical questions." — PolitiTweet.org

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Cory Booker: "Judge Jackson is not an extremist. She is not out of the judicial norm... To say she's an extremist on crime belies the fact that she has law enforcement group after law enforcement group supporting her." He names IACP and Fraternal Order of Police. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@CoryBooker: "The Supreme Court has done enough damage to itself with its lax ethics rules. The legitimacy of the Court has sunk pretty dramatically over the last years, and I think a lot of it's because of the spectacle we see here and now. And that really, really concerns me." — PolitiTweet.org

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Republican Sen. Thom Tillis notes that Amy Coney Barrett, like Ketanji Brown Jackson, didn't say whether she'd support or oppose packing the court in her 10/2020 hearing. But he argues: "It's a very different question now than it was when Judge Barrett was here." — PolitiTweet.org

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How KBJ described her judicial philosophy — she also said there's no label that captures it and that the Constitution is "fixed in its meaning." https://t.co/kxesbs6TmP https://t.co/B2nGvg3Yqi — PolitiTweet.org

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September 1987. Robert Bork hearings. The Supreme Court nominee defended his role in carrying out Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre. This did not help his cause. https://t.co/81o1MGfLYE — PolitiTweet.org

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Correct. The Biden-chaired Judiciary Committee sent Robert Bork to the floor with an unfavorable recommendation. He was rejected by an up-or-down vote of 42-58 (there was no filibuster). — PolitiTweet.org

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A fact to consider: Clarence Thomas was confirmed by a Democratic-controlled Senate in 1991. A Judiciary Cmte chaired by Joe Biden sent him to the floor even though he failed to win a majority vote. Today Republicans don't plan to extend that for KBJ (Dems have to discharge). — PolitiTweet.org

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Lindsey Graham suggests KBJ would not get thru a GOP-run Senate: "If we get back the Senate and we're in charge of this body, and there's judicial openings, we will talk to our colleagues on the other side. But if we were in charge, she would not have been before this committee." — PolitiTweet.org

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This Judiciary meeting on KBJ captures the tensions. To GOP, Bork fight was the root of all evil and Thomas & Kavanaugh scars remain. Democrats say Mitch McConnell broke the process in 2016 by eliminating the presumption that a SCOTUS nominee gets a vote. https://t.co/BZAcIFCKDP — PolitiTweet.org

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If you think the Supreme Court confirmation wars are bad now, they're on a path to get worse. My deep dive with @frankthorp on how we got here and why the future is bleak. https://t.co/BZAcIFCKDP — PolitiTweet.org

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Lindsey Graham says he didn't think twice about voting for Jackson to the DC Circuit but that the Supreme Court is different than lower courts because you're "making policy, not just bound by it." — PolitiTweet.org

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Senate Judiciary's top Republican Chuck Grassley says Jackson was "personable and engaging" but "she and I have fundamental different views on the role of judges." He says he will vote against her nomination to the Supreme Court. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BenjySarlin: Anything could change, but at no point has the main obstacle to a deal been “progressives won’t take Manchin’s demands.” I… — PolitiTweet.org

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Per senators Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation is not in doubt. "I think she’s certainly going to be confirmed," says Republican Roy Blunt, who adds: "I won't be supporting her, but I’ll be joining others in understanding the importance of this moment." https://t.co/E2urvFesdy — PolitiTweet.org

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DURBIN on MSNBC says full Senate may begin voting today to move the Jackson nomination to the floor. "The ultimate outcome I feel very positive about... The members of the Senate are going to reach out and grab that arc of history and move it just a little bit closer to justice." — PolitiTweet.org

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Sen. Mark Kelly officially a yes on KBJ: “I believe her to be very well qualified and having demonstrated a commitment to fairly interpret and uphold the Constitution on our nation’s highest court. I look forward to voting to confirm Judge Jackson to serve on the Supreme Court.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Senate eyes historic week with a vote to put Jackson on Supreme Court Judiciary Cmte meets today and will vote. It’s likely to deadlock. Democrats will begin to “discharge” the nom. Collins aside, Murkowski & Romney appear in play. Final vote this week. https://t.co/E2urvFesdy — PolitiTweet.org

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Sarah Palin just landed the “Complete and Total Endorsement” from Trump for Alaska’s House seat. — PolitiTweet.org

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McConnell says it all began when Democrats “assassinated” Bork, who was rejected 42-58 by a bipartisan majority in 1987. To him and other Republicans, Bork & Thomas & Kavanaugh justify their own aggression. McConnell hasn’t ruled out further escalation. https://t.co/BZAcIFCKDP — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nytmike: NEW: As recently as last year, Biden told aides Trump was threat to democracy and should be prosecuted. Biden never expressed… — PolitiTweet.org