The court that Mitch McConnell built

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🗓️ 26 October 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Mitch McConnell’s Supreme Court victory. The future of the Affordable Care Act. And a shift in the White House’s thinking on how to tackle the coronavirus.

Trump’s conservative imprint on the federal judiciary gives Democrats a playbook — if they win.

‘ACB vs. ACA’: Why Democrats keep bringing up Obamacare during Barrett’s confirmation hearing.

With just over a week until Election Day, the White House has signaled that it’s done trying to contain the spread of the coronavirus, setting its chips on therapeutics and vaccines. And, as White House reporter Toluse Olorunnipa explains, that shift in attitude can be seen in how Vice President Pence’s office is handling its own outbreak.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Elin Nakashima with Washington Post.
0:13.6	This is Post Reports.
0:15.2	I'm our team powers.
0:18.8	It's Monday, October 26th.
0:23.6	Today, Mitch McConnell is a Supreme Court victory.
0:27.4	The future of the Affordable Care Act and COVID continues to plague the White House.
0:38.6	I'm not a president.
0:40.7	The majority later.
0:42.2	We're going to order to the Senate.
0:45.0	The Senate will be an order.
0:48.2	The Senate is expected to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Monday night,
0:53.0	just a little over a week before the election.
0:56.2	It's a dramatic victory for President Trump and for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
1:01.0	Now, the framers knew the independent judiciary would be a crucial part of this new experiment
1:08.2	in self-government.
1:10.4	So how fortunate for our country that the Senate just advanced one of the most qualified
1:16.0	nominees for judicial service that we've seen in our lifetimes.
1:22.0	Many wise, there may be no thing that is more important to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
1:27.3	than judges.
1:28.9	Sungmin Kim is a White House reporter for the Post.
1:31.6	And he encapsulated it pretty well in a floor speech Sunday afternoon when he acknowledged.
1:36.9	A lot of what we've done over the last four years will be undone sooner or later by the
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