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Senate Republicans will press forward with the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett despite the recent outbreak of coronavirus among some Republican senators.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is calling on the Senate to postpone the confirmation hearing for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, calling it both “irresponsible and dangerous to move forward with a hearing” following the news of two members of the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Thom Tillis (R-NC), testing positive for the novel coronavirus.

Historic precedent, the Constitution, and a superb nominee are why the Senate should quickly start Amy Coney Barrett confirmation process.

Judge Amy Coney Barrett was already diagnosed with the coronavirus during the Summer and has since recovered, according to a report in the Washington Post.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said in a statement on Friday that President Donald Trump is in “good spirits” after testing positive for coronavirus and that the Senate will move with “full steam ahead” to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, he announced in a Friday statement.

First Lady Melania Trump said Friday she is experiencing “mild symptoms” after testing positive for the Chinese coronavirus but added she is “overall feeling good.”

Former FBI Director James Comey told a Senate panel Wednesday that he would not have approved the federal surveillance warrant for former Trump campaign aide Carter Page had he known of the information withheld by some agents.

Comey is testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee on the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign and Russian collusion.

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified intelligence on Tuesday that suggests Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign had created a plan in July 2016 to frame then-candidate Donald Trump for Russian hacking — at least according to Russian intelligence.

A vast majority of registered voters favor the “Keep Nine” amendment, establishing the number of Supreme Court justices at nine and thereby preventing the president and Congress from ever “packing” the highest court in the land.

Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have offered high praise to President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, describing her as a “legal trailblazer” and “committed constitutionalist” who stands as a “problem to rabid partisans, and an ally to the rule of law.”

On this week’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, explained that while he saw pressure mounting on both sides of the aisle as a Supreme Court confirmation is about to be underway, there would be consequences if Democrats used similar tactics to what the employed with Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation process in 2018.

On Saturday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Justice,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, laid out the timeline for the confirmation process of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, who Graham argued had been consistent with past Supreme Court confirmations.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said on Wednesday at the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit that President Donald Trump has the constitutional authority to nominate a replacement for the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and vowed that the hearing to vet the nominee would remain civil.

The Department of Justice will submit a proposal to Congress that would curb big tech’s legal immunity, according to a report released on Wednesday.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) stated that Senate Republicans have “the votes to confirm Justice Ginsburg’s replacement before the election.”

Fox News Channel network senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano said President Donald Trump was playing with “fire” by pushing a replacement for Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the November election.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) wrote in a letter to committee Democrats on Monday that the committee would confirm their nominee if the “shoe were on the other foot.”

Activists with the far-left groups ShutDown DC and the Sunrise Movement gathered early Monday morning at Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) Washington, D.C., residence demanding that President Donald Trump and the Senate not try to fill the Supreme Court seat of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg until after the presidential election.

MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Monday reacted to GOP leadership pushing to nominate a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who passed away last week.

Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) announced Saturday he is in favor of Republican efforts to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with President Donald Trump’s nominee.

A majority of Americans said the Senate should hold confirmation hearings in the event of a Supreme Court vacancy this year, according to a Marquette University poll released Saturday, which had been conducted prior to the news of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said that he is supporting President Donald Trump “in any effort to move forward” concerning the vacancy left by the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) announced that former FBI Director James Comey has agreed to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee and his appearance will take place on September

Three GOP Senators have announced a new bill called the Online Freedom and Viewpoint Diversity Act that aims to modify Section 230 of the Communications and Decency Act to clarify the original intent of the law and increase accountability faced by the Big Tech Masters of the Universe for their censorship of political speech.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham applauded presumptive Democrat nominee Joe Biden’s wife for a speech supporting her husband.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) reacted to the guilty plea of former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith by stating that “if the shoe were on the other foot, and an

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) refused to identify which Republican senators oppose issuing subpoenas to former Obama administration officials in an interview with Hugh Hewitt on Tuesday.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said that the FBI mischaracterized, misled, and lied to the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Graham released a document that showed the FBI misled the Senate Intelligence Committee on the reliability of the Steele dossier.

During an interview that aired on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” on Wednesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) reacted to former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates’ testimony earlier in the day before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Democrat lawmakers are warning Republicans against filling a Supreme Court vacancy this year after Republicans ignored former President Barack Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland. At the time, Republican leadership stated that “the American people should have a say in the court’s direction” given 2016’s status as a presidential election year.

Trump said Friday night on Air Force One that he was prepared to ban TikTok — currently owned by Chinese technology company ByteDance.

During a press conference on Monday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) touted provisions in the HEALS Act, the coronavirus relief package introduced by Senate Republicans, to address China and return the medical supply chain to America by saying that supply chain

The primary source for ex-British spy Christopher Steele’s “pee dossier” alleging Russian collusion was a U.S.-based researcher.