Lindsey Graham told reporters he plans on holding a vote anyway.
Democrats are preparing to boycott the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Thursday vote on Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, party leaders confirmed Wednesday evening, a gesture that Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has already indicated he will ignore. “This has been a sham process from the beginning,” Schumer and the committee’s Democrats said in a statement. “We will not grant this process any further legitimacy by participating in a committee markup of this nomination just twelve days before the culmination of an election that is already underway.” Democrats have castigated Senate Republicans for their rapid push to confirm Barrett, a conservative jurist nominated by President Donald Trump shortly after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died last month.
