Nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court

Oct. 26, 2020

The AFL-CIO opposed the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett for associate justice for the Supreme Court. The speed with which Judge Barrett’s nomination was processed was offensive and violated any sense of fairness and non-partisanship, which should be the hallmark of filling a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. Despite having refused to consider President Obama’s nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, for more than nine months until after the 2016 election, Mitch McConnell, who was then the Senate majority leader, rushed Barrett’s confirmation through in record time when the American people were already voting in large numbers in the 2020 presidential election. Coney Barrett’s nomination was confirmed on Oct. 26, 2020.

Legislative Alert

This is Bad for working people.

Vote result: Passed

YEAs: 52
NAYs: 48

Legislator State Sort descending Party Vote
Sen. Lisa Murkowski
AK
Republican Yes
Sen. Dan Sullivan
AK
Republican Yes
Sen. Richard C. Shelby
AL
Republican Yes
Sen. Doug Jones
AL
Democrat No
Sen. Tom Cotton
AR
Republican Yes
Sen. John Boozman
AR
Republican Yes
Sen. Martha McSally
AZ
Republican Yes
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema
AZ
ID ID No
Sen. Dianne Feinstein
CA
Democrat No
Sen. Kamala Harris
CA
Democrat No
Sen. Michael Bennet
CO
Democrat No
Sen. Cory Gardner
CO
Republican Yes
Sen. Christopher S. Murphy
CT
Democrat No
Sen. Richard Blumenthal
CT
Democrat No
Sen. Christopher A. Coons
DE
Democrat No
Sen. Thomas R. Carper
DE
Democrat No
Sen. Rick Scott
FL
Republican Yes
Sen. Marco Rubio
FL
Republican Yes
Sen. David Perdue
GA
Republican Yes
Sen. Kelly Loeffler
GA
Republican Yes