Durbin: Senate Dems Can ‘Slow’ the Process of Confirming SCOTUS Nominee Amy Coney Barrett

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DURBIN: "We can slow it down perhaps a matter of hours, maybe days at the most, but we can't stop the outcome. What we should do is to address this now respectfully. But understand the context, George. Senator Mitch McConnell, who could find no time to attend the negotiating on the Coronavirus relief package that we need to put together for the pandemic facing our country, for the unemployed people, for the businesses, Senator McConnell refused to attend those meetings, didn’t have time to do it. And yet when this vacancy occurred, he dropped everything. Now we're going hell-bent on getting this done before the election. And a second thing, of course, he had to reverse the position he took four years ago saying that we should wait for the next president to fill the vacancy and then watch as his caucus marched in one after the other, looked down at their shoes and said, 'We’ve changed our mind, too. We now agree with Senator McConnell.'"