 It's official. In a 52 to 48 vote, the United States Senate has voted to confirm far-right extremist Amy Coney Barrett solidifying the conservative majority on the Supreme Court for decades most likely because they now have a 6-3 majority and the only Republican to vote against Amy Coney Barrett's Confirmation is Susan Collins who likely would have voted with her party if she wasn't currently in a very competitive race for Re-election where she is losing so the implications of this are absolutely Horrifying and anyone who actually cares about Progress and maintaining the progress that we've made even the incremental steps We've taken to make this country a little bit more equitable You should be worried right now because everything's on the chopping block starting with the Affordable Care Act So that means if you are under 26 and you're currently on your parents plan Or you're in a state where you benefit from the Medicaid expansion Or you signed on to one of your state's exchanges and you bought overpriced health care But it's it's health insurance nonetheless. You may lose what you have It was a small step in the right direction But you can't even keep that if you are a woman who cares about your bodily autonomy We may lose that if you know a loved one who is LGBTQ plus Well same-sex couples their marriages will be on the chopping block And if a Bergfelvie Hodges gets overturned that means it's gonna be up to the states Which means that lots and lots of red states will immediately Undo marriage equality and this isn't hypothetical. This is what the Republican Party has said they want to do They want to appoint Supreme Court justices who will not just rip down the ACA but overturn marriage equality and abortion So for more details on this we go to the Washington Post reports The vote was 52 to 48 for Barrett president Trump's third nominee to the Supreme Court the 48-year-old jurist solidifies a judicial legacy for the White House and Senate Republicans that also includes dozens of younger and more ideologically conservative judges to the federal appeals courts an acolyte of the late Justice Antonin Scalia Barrett is certain to diverge dramatically from the woman. She will succeed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died September 18th, and it was for decades an enduring icon for liberals the battles Confirmed Barrett whose installation occurred as more than 60 million people had already cast their ballots for president Also plunged a Senate already bruised by years of tit for tat skirmishes in the judicial wars into deeper partisan acrimony In sense Democrats charged Republicans with hypocrisy for blocking President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee for eight months in 2016 and repeatedly pointed out that no justice has been confirmed this close to a presidential election But Republicans asserted their raw power Muscling Barrett's nomination through and just over four weeks and with no bipartisan support the first time that has occurred for a Supreme Court nominee in Generations and a reflection of the politicized atmosphere around judicial fights Her intellectual brilliance is unquestioned Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said of Barrett on Sunday Her command of the law is remarkable her integrity is above reproach The White House planned an outdoor ceremony after the vote Monday to celebrate her confirmation and Justice Clarence Thomas was expected to administer the Constitutional oath Supreme Court justices take two oaths one to protect and uphold the Constitution and another about judicial conduct once sworn in Barrett will solidify a six to three conservative majority on the court and will be in a position to immediately hear contentious cases on Elections and health care. So that's that She was confirmed after Republican said we don't confirm new Supreme Court Justices in an election year. They did just that and Democrats went right along with it putting up Barely any fight whatsoever Assisting them in some cases if we're talking about Diane Feinstein And I've got to show you this very strongly worded letter that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer put out via Twitter Because I'm sure that this is gonna persuade so many Republicans He says today will go down as one of the darkest days in the Senate's 231 year history the Senate GOP is thwarting the will of the people and confirming a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court in the Middle of a presidential election Democrats will never stop fighting for Americans. You guys literally just stopped fighting as this process plays out Like what did you do to stop it? What procedural tools did you try to use? Did you like even try to put up any bit of a fight besides like tweeting about it? What did you do you are in power and you didn't do anything and now guess what we're all fucked So the only way we have a chance in hell of undoing the damage that Amy Coney Barrett will inevitably cause is if we get Serious about packing the Supreme Court and any Democrat who is currently in Congress or in the Senate Who is not actually willing to do this has to be replaced immediately Now Joe Biden was asked about whether or not he'd be open to term limits since Amy Coney Barrett is young and conserved for decades And he already shot down that idea So Democrats just there's so weak that they had an Opportunity a short window to act and I just saw them basically give up and concede But here's what we have to do replace any Democrat who doesn't want to do the following things We expand the Supreme Court at a minimum. We add two more justices Since conservative stole to Brett Cab or Justice Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett I don't necessarily view Kavanaugh as a stolen seat, but nonetheless We have to absolutely expand the number of justices now if you ask me we add six expand the number to 15 justices And then we secure a liberal majority Now you can say well Mike if we do that then that just means that Conservatives when they take back the Senate, they're going to expand the Supreme Court as well And I sympathize with that argument in fact Ted Cruz is already saying that's what he wants to do But here's the thing even if both parties go tit for tat whenever they take back control of the Senate and we keep expanding the Number of justices is on the Supreme Court What is more preferable to you? That instance where there are periods of conservative majorities and liberal majorities over the next few decades or a constant period of conservative rulings with Amy Coney Barrett and their 60 majority you see at least if we go tit for tat we get some breaks in there But if we don't do anything we don't expand the number of justices on the Supreme Court then what happens? Then we just have non-stop conservative rulings Just irreparable harm to democracy the progress that we already made we have to refight those battles gay marriage abortion Do you really want to go back and fight those battles when we're dealing with a climate catastrophe? When people are falling into poverty and we need to take action to make progress not fight to progress further backwards I mean, what do you want to do? I say we expand the court And if republicans want to add more justices too fine We will go tit for tat whenever democrats have a president and the u.s. Senate We expand the court add more justices But what we do is we stop them from expanding the number of justices And we do that by expanding democracy So that means immediately if democrats are able to take control of the senate the first thing that they do Is they make dc estate? Then they allow Puerto Ricans to vote for statehood. That's four more senators We add Guam. We add any u.s. Territory to the nation And if republicans don't like that we're doing that if they think it looks like a really cheap political maneuver Well, they're the ones who have to argue against democracy. They're the ones who have to explain why further enfranchising more people Is actually a bad thing. They're arguing against democracy. So let them make that case Um, they may try to do that as well They may try to carve up texas and other red states In order to basically Create a senate that looks more favorable to republicans. Okay, well, then we'll do that too. We'll carve up california On top of that We make sure we make voting compulsory and reduce all barriers to voting because Republicans know that if more people participate in democracy, they lose every single election because this is a minority party So it's not like we're rigging the system. We're making the system literally more democratic So they have to compete they have to appeal to people in these new states that we can create To the new voters who are forced to vote now because they have no choice So there's no time to just like sit around and uh Mope about all of this and think oh man. Well, this sucks, but it's gonna happen. They're gonna repeal rovey wave Nope democrats have to have a plan and it's really important now That we get them to first show their cards so we know where they stand Because the democrats who come out against court packing are the first ones that we have to target going into 2022 Anyone who's a career election that doesn't support court packing They've got to go. Sorry. We can't deal with 20 to 30 possibly 40 years of a conservative majority Where all of the progress we've made even though it's not that much over the past uh, half a century All gets undone. We're looking at a Lochner era on steroids So we just we don't have time for that. We don't have time To go backwards. We have to keep moving forward and so we don't have a choice democracy It's at stake. So we have no choice but to expand the supreme court. Republicans are the ones that did this They basically instituted their own court packing plan. They're not expanding the number of justices but They're using dirty tricks That aren't necessarily unconstitutional, but they are dirty. So if they're gonna play that way Democrats have to play that way too Fight fire with fire Don't participate in asymmetric warfare fight back Now a lot of them will not fight back, but I do like what I see from some senators such as brian shots Ed marquis Even angus king are talking about Maybe actually Doing something that looks like either term limits for supreme court justices or court packing because When things get this bad where all the progress that activists have fought for for decades Is going to be overturned like that one case after another after another You have no choice Really