Judge Amy Coney Barrett, U.S. President Donald Trump's Nominee for Supreme Court, smiles as she poses for a photo before a meeting with Senator Roy Blunt (R-Mo), on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, U.S. October 21, 2020. Jacquelyn Martin/Pool via REUTERS
The White House plans to hold a swearing-in ceremony for Judge Amy Coney Barrett later tonight following her expected confirmation to the United States Supreme Court despite coronavirus concerns.
According to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, once Barrett is confirmed by the Senate, “then we expect for a swearing in to happen later this evening if all goes well.”
“We’re doing… the best we can to encourage as much social distancing as possible. It’ll be outdoors if it goes off as planned right now,” Meadows said. “And still continue to do testing in and around those that are critical to the mission to try to get there.”
A Rose Garden event for Barrett last month has been credited as the source for an outbreak of coronavirus in the White House. President Donald Trump tested positive, as did several high-profile members of his staff, including counselor to the president Hope Hicks and Kayleigh McEnany, the press secretary.
Responding to criticisms that tonight’s event could spark a repeat of last month’s event, Meadows said: “The very first event, while there’s a whole lot of connects that have been made with who was at the event and who came down with it, we’ve been able to look at that and track as many as three different areas where the virus actually infected different people within the White House. So it didn’t all come from that particular event.”
Barrett’s confirmation is seen as a victory for President Trump and Republicans just a week before the general election, securing a conservative majority on the court for decades.
Alan is a writer, editor, and news junkie based in New York.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy has refused to answer questions about the Nashville shooting and when reporters…
Fox News is trying to negate any airtime that Trump gets by criticizing his appearances,…
A federal judge has ordered that former vice president Mike Pence must testify about his…
After Speaker McCarthy tried to blame Biden for the debt limit, the White House fired…
Rachel Maddow put into context the degree to which the mass shooting epidemic has gotten…
Senate Republicans offered tepid disagreement with Trump's decision to glorify insurrectionists at his Waco, TX…
This website uses cookies.