The growing number of Covid-19 infections among Republican officials is not just shaking up the presidential election;
it also risks undermining the process of confirmation in the Senate of the conservative judge chosen by Donald Trump, Amy Coney Barrett.
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As of Friday, two senators from the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mike Lee and Thom Tillis, have tested positive.
Both attended the ceremony held at the Rose Garden for Judge Barrett on September 26, after which several Republican officials were declared to be carriers of the virus.
On Saturday, another Republican senator, Ben Sasse, also a member of the Judiciary Committee, indicated that, although negative, he was quarantining himself, after interacting with two positive colleagues.
The leader of the Republicans in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, nevertheless assured on Saturday that the confirmation process, led by the judicial commission, would continue as planned from October 12, unlike
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