Thousands protest Trump's Supreme Court pick at Washington Women's…
WASHINGTON, 메리트카지노쿠폰 Oct 17 (Reuters) – Thousands marched to the U.S.
Supreme Court in Washington on Saturday to commemorate the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and 온라인카지노 protest President Donald Trump’s rush to push through Amy Coney Barrett as her replacement.
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled an Oct.
22 vote on the nomination of Barrett, a conservative appellate judge, over objections from Democrats that the confirmation process comes too close to Nov. 3’s presidential election.
More than 26 million Americans have already cast their ballots for who they want to sit in the White House for 메리트카지노가입 the next four years, Trump or his Democratic rival Joe Biden.
Demonstrators at the Women’s March said they were angry that Republicans appear ready to confirm Barrett’s nomination so close to Election Day after refusing to move forward Merrick Garland, the pick of former President Barack Obama, a Democrat, more than six months ahead of the 2016 election.
“The fact of the matter is that we are powerful and they are afraid,” said Sonja Spoo, the director of the reproductive rights campaigns at UltraViolet, a feminist advocacy group, one of the speakers at the protest.
“They are on the ropes and they know it and we are about to give the knock-out punch.”
Ginsburg, a liberal champion of women’s rights, died on Sept. 18.
The protesters marched through downtown Washington to the Supreme Court steps. Hundreds of marches and demonstrations were planned website at city halls, 바카라사이트추천 parks and monuments across the country.
In confirmation hearings this week, 우리카지노사이트추천 Barrett side-stepped website questions about presidential powers, abortion, climate change, voting rights and Obamacare, saying she could not answer because cases involving these matters could come before the court.
If Barrett takes a seat on the Supreme Court, conservatives would have a 6-3 majority.
(Reporting by Timothy Gardner; Editing by Heather Timmons and Sonya Hepinstall)