Hillary Clinton tweets ‘Vote them out’ after Republicans confirm Amy Coney Barrett

Politicians reacted on social media after the Senate Republicans confirmed President Donald Trump's latest Supreme Court nominee.

DeMicia Inman

Oct 27, 2020

Politicians, including former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, shared collective disapproval of the rushed confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court.

Senate Republicans just pushed through a Supreme Court justice who will help them take away Americans’ health care in the middle of a pandemic. For them, this is victory,” Clinton tweeted. “Vote them out.”

Senate Republicans just pushed through a Supreme Court justice who will help them take away Americans' health care in the middle of a pandemic.

For them, this is victory.

Vote them out.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 27, 2020

Her tweet was shared moments after Coney Barrett was confirmed by Senate Republicans. As reported by theGrio, the 52-48 vote was the closest high court confirmation to a presidential election in history and the first in modern times with no support from the minority party. Only one Republican, Sen. Susan Collins, voted against the nominee.

“I do not think it is fair nor consistent to have a Senate confirmation vote prior to the election,” Collins said, according to theGrio.

Amy Coney Barrett Is Sworn-In As New Supreme Court Justice At The White House — U.S. President Donald Trump, newly sworn-in U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett and her husband Jesse Barrett look on during a ceremonial swearing-in on the South Lawn of the White House October 26, 2020 in Washington, DC. The Senate confirmed Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court today by a vote of 52-48. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Clinton was not alone in her revelation. Many politicians took to social media after the votes were tallied to share the threat imposed by Coney Barret’s confirmation.

New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio–Cortez tweeted her desire to expand SCOTUS and said the Democrats will not be bullied.

“Republicans do this because they don’t believe Dems have the stones to play hardball like they do. And for a long time they’ve been correct. But do not let them bully the public into thinking their bulldozing is normal but a response isn’t. There is a legal process for expansion,” she wrote.

Republicans do this because they don’t believe Dems have the stones to play hardball like they do. And for a long time they’ve been correct. But do not let them bully the public into thinking their bulldozing is normal but a response isn’t. There is a legal process for expansion.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 27, 2020

Senator Elizabeth Warren shared her opinion as well tweeting “we will fight on.”

The Republicans are popping champagne tonight to celebrate how they for shoved aside the wishes of the American people to steal a Supreme Court seat & impose their radical agenda on the country – an agenda most Americans don’t support. But this fight isn't over. We will fight on.
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) October 27, 2020

Sen. Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for vice president, joined her colleagues and voted against the confirmation. Similar to Clinton. she expressed concern for the Affordable Care Act.

“Instead of working to provide COVID-19 relief to struggling Americans, Mitch McConnell and Republicans chose to jam through a Supreme Court nominee—when more than 62 million people have already voted. It’s despicable and they must be held accountable,” the senator wrote.

Today Republicans denied the will of the American people by confirming a Supreme Court justice through an illegitimate process—all in their effort to gut the Affordable Care Act and strip health care from millions with pre-existing conditions.

We won’t forget this.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) October 27, 2020

Instead of working to provide COVID-19 relief to struggling Americans, Mitch McConnell and Republicans chose to jam through a Supreme Court nominee—when more than 62 million people have already voted. It’s despicable and they must be held accountable.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) October 26, 2020

Many Democrats fear with a now 6-3 split in the Supreme Court, Coney Barret could be the deciding vote in an upcoming Supreme Court case on the Affordable Care Act. The case, California vs. Texas, seeks to strike down former President Barack Obama’s health care law, leaving millions of Americans without health insurance in the midst of a pandemic.

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