Updated 12:21 p.m.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has set an Oct. 22 vote on recommending approval of Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination. Republicans are racing to confirm President Donald Trump’s pick, and Democrats are acknowledging there is little they can do stop them. Her confirmation would lock in a conservative majority on the court for years to come.
The confirmation hearings concluded Thursday without Barrett after she testified publicly for two days. In her Senate testimony, Barrett stressed that she would be her own judge, beholden neither to Trump nor anyone else, and sought to create distance between herself and past positions.