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Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham said Sunday that the commission will approve Amy Coney Barrett's candidacy for Supreme Court on Oct. 22.

She said she would set up a full Senate vote to send to superior court before the end of the month.

"So, we will start on October 12, and more than half of the Supreme Court justices who have had hearings took place in 16 days or less," Graham said on Fox News.

«We will have a presentation day.

We will have two days of interrogation, Tuesday and Wednesday, and on the 15th we will begin to mark, we will postpone it for a week and we will inform you of the candidacy outside the commission on October 22nd ».

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"Then it will depend (on Senate Majority Leader Mitch) McConnell, what to do with the candidacy once he leaves the commission," said the Republican of South Carolina.

Graham had given another date on Saturday, saying the committee would move forward on Barrett's nomination before Oct. 26, likely with a Senate vote shortly before Election Day.

They seek to confirm Amy Coney Barrett before the elections

The push to confirm a Supreme Court justice before the election would put the Senate on a path to one of the fastest confirmations in modern history.

No candidate for the Supreme Court has been confirmed after July during a presidential election year.

Barrett, a current judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, was chosen by President Donald Trump on Saturday to fill the vacancy left by the late Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The conservative jurist, whom the president described as a person who has "unwavering loyalty to the Constitution" and a person who would rule "based solely on a fair reading of the law," has been strongly opposed by Democrats, who say that its confirmation could jeopardize a number of things, including the Affordable Care Act and the landmark Roe v.

Wade.

The stakes in the fight for the vacancy are immense and come at a crucial moment in American politics.

Trump's ability to appoint a new judge to the court would mark the third of his term in office and create the opportunity to steer the court in an even more conservative direction for decades to come.

CNN's Manu Raju and Clare Foran contributed to this report

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