Amy Coney Barrett's first week

1 big thing

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🗓️ 26 October 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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The Senate votes today on Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation hearing. If confirmed, she'll get to work immediately on major cases including the future of the Affordable Care Act and any election-related cases already on the docket. Plus, we’ve got record-breaking early voting. And, what's legal — and what's not — at the polls. Guests: Axios' Alayna Treene, Stef Kight, and Bryan Walsh. Credits: "Axios Today" is produced in partnership with Pushkin Industries. The team includes Niala Boodhoo, Carol Wu, Cara Shillenn, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Michael Heidemann, Dan Bobkoff, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Alex Sugiura and Naomi Shavin. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. Go deeper: Amy Coney Barrett's immediate impact Early voting eclipses 2016 total with 9 days until election Researchers build machine to extract drinkable water from air Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. I hope you had a good weekend. It's Monday, October 26. I'm Niala Boodoo. Here's how we're making you smarter today. We've got record-breaking early voting.
0:45.2	Plus what's legal and what's not at the polls. First though, Amy Koney Barrett's
0:51.6	immediate impact on the Supreme Court is today's one big thing.
1:00.0	Today we're expecting that Amy Coney Barrett will be confirmed as the next
1:03.7	justice of the Supreme Court and she's likely to be sworn in immediately and get
1:08.5	straight to work. Elena Trine is the author of our sneak peek newsletter
1:12.9	and covers the White House in Congress for Axios.
1:15.9	Elena, good morning.
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1:18.4	Elena, we tend to think of the role of a Supreme Court
1:21.1	justice as like decisions they're going to be making decades from now.
1:25.4	But in the case of Amy Koney Barrett, she might be set to work immediately on decisions.
1:30.8	It's not that she might be, she will be.
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