Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

202 for Tuesday, October 27th. In today's news, the coronavirus spreads like

wildfire into some of our nation's last untouched areas.

Rioting shakes Philadelphia overnight after police kill a black man.

And two new studies show there's water on the moon.

But first, the big idea.

With only Republicans supporting her confirmation, Amy Coney Barrett became the first Supreme Court justice since Edwin Stanton during reconstruction in 1869 to be confirmed without any bipartisan support.

Advanced on a 52 to 48 vote and quickly sworn in Monday night at the White House.

The 48 year old becomes the 115th justice and the fifth woman in the

court's 231 year history. One week from election day, more than 60 million

Americans have already cast their ballots for president and the incumbent trails in the polls.

Republicans privately acknowledge that if the election was today, they're more likely than not to lose control of the Senate.

Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia,

voted to confirm, now Justice Breck Kavanaugh in 2018,

and to put Barrett on the circuit court in 2017.

But he decried Senate Republicans for further politicizing the High Court and

said they will rue the day that they did so.

Republican presidents have now appointed 15 of the most recent 19 justices, including six of the current nine.

That's all the more remarkable when you consider that the Republican candidate for president

has only won the national popular vote once since 1988.

That was George W Bush's re-election in 2004.

And Republican senators have only represented a majority of the American population

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