As President Trump and several Republican Senators battle COVID-19, Democrats are trying to use the news as an excuse to call for delaying Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearings, which begin next Monday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Nobody should fall for such desperate and disingenuous attempts to derail a nomination that Democrats would be opposing under any circumstances.
“It is premature for Chairman [Lindsey] Graham to commit to a hearing schedule when we do not know the full extent of potential exposure stemming from the president’s infection and before the White House puts in place a contact tracing plan to prevent further spread of the disease,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee wrote in a letter.
