Sen. Amy Klobuchar prefers that judges be in control of election rules rather than lawmakers. That was the position she took at Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation on Tuesday.

Klobuchar said her mind was boggled by the Supreme Court’s recent ruling reinstating South Carolina’s absentee ballot witness signature requirement, a provision codified in the state’s election law which an unelected federal district judge had decided was too burdensome a requirement during the pandemic (notably, none of the justices filed dissents against the high court’s order). “In the middle of a pandemic, you’ve got to go and get a witness,” she said in exasperation.