Good Tuesday morning, I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing.

And I'm Anna Palmer. There is one week until Election Day and 45 days until government funding runs dry.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has used Donald Trump's presidency to orchestrate a complete overhaul of the federal judiciary.

After Monday night's confirmation and swearing in

of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, Trump has appointed one-third of the nation's highest

court. And according to the great Sungman Kim of the Washington Post and former Politico, Trump has

appointed 220 judges.

The New Times front page reads this.

Barrett sworn into Supreme Court after a 52-48 vote, a Scalia protege tilts a bench remade by Trump further to the right.

After Amy Coney-Barrant was confirmed to the Supreme Court Monday evening, we got a sneak

peek at both the

stylistic and substantive rift that could come to dominate the Democratic Party in 2021 and

2022 should they win the Senate and the White House. Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader from New York,

who's up for re-election in 2022, said this while leaving the Capitol, according to the Hill

Pool. I have two words for McConnell's speech, very defensive.

On the Senate floor, Schumer peered over to the Republican side of the chamber and said,

you will have forfeited the right to tell us how to run the majority.

The American people will never forget this blatant act of bad faith.

For what it's worth, we didn't think McConnell sounded defensive at all, but rather gleeful.

Also, who thought Republicans had the right to tell Democrats how to run their majority

in the first place?

Compare that to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who tweeted this, expand the court.

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