| Amy Coney Barrett will be confirmed to the Supreme Court; Armenia and Azerbaijan are still fighting. Tonight's Sentences was written by Benjamin Rosenberg. | | | | | | | Senate to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court | | | | | Susan Walsh/AFP/Getty Images | | - After an all-night Senate session, Amy Coney Barrett is expected to be confirmed to the Supreme Court on Monday evening, replacing the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Susan Collins of Maine is the only Republican senator to say she will vote against Barrett's confirmation. [USA Today / Nicholas Wu and Christal Hayes]
- Collins and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska were the only Republicans to vote against advancing Barrett to a vote on the Senate floor. But while Murkowski said she opposes the process that led the Senate to this point, she has said she will still vote to confirm Barrett to the Court. [AP / Lisa Mascaro]
- Barrett will mark President Donald Trump's third Supreme Court justice in his first term, after Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. Her confirmation gives conservatives a 6-3 majority on the Court, and at just 48, she could help entrench conservative policy for decades to come. [CNN / Clare Foran and Ted Barrett]
- Democrats have made several attempts to express their disapproval of the rushed confirmation process. They boycotted the Judiciary Committee's vote last Thursday, and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tried to file several motions to delay the process. [Vox / Zeeshan Aleem]
- "We made an important contribution to the future of this country," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said. "A lot of what we've done over the last four years will be undone sooner or later by the next election. They won't be able to do much about this for a long time to come." [NBC News / Rebecca Shabad and Julie Tsirkin]
- Barrett describes herself as an "originalist" — she believes the Constitution should be interpreted based on the understanding of the law at the time it was written. This may put her at odds with Chief Justice John Roberts's view that the Supreme Court should stay out of politics. [CNN / Joan Biskupic]
- With Barrett on the Court, the likelihood grows that the Court will repeal the Affordable Care Act and/or Roe v. Wade. [The Hill / Morgan Chalfant]
- Barrett's presence on the Supreme Court would also be significant if the Court has to rule on the outcome of the election, as it did in 2000. Only one Supreme Court justice has ever been confirmed closer to a presidential election. [NYT / Larry Buchanan and Karen Yourish]
| | | Armenia and Azerbaijan accuse each other of truce violations | | - Mere minutes after the United States helped broker a ceasefire agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, both sides accused the other of violating it. Two previous ceasefires the countries agreed to earlier this month were also broken almost instantly. [BBC News]
- Armenia and Azerbaijan are fighting over a disputed territory, Nagorno-Karabakh. Before September 27, violence in the region had been mostly dormant since 1994. The territory is recognized as part of Azerbaijan, but the population is almost entirely ethnic Armenians. [Daily Beast / Emil Filtenborg and Stefan Weichert]
- Several regional powers stand to gain from the conflict, including Turkey, Iran, and Russia. Turkey supplied drones and recruited Syrian rebels to join the fight on Azerbaijan's side, which has slowly been pushing back Armenian forces. [Jerusalem Post / Seth J. Frantzman]
- France and Russia also took part in the talks to broker the latest short-lived ceasefire. Since the fighting renewed, both sides have used heavy artillery, rockets, and drones. Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week that the death toll was nearing 5,000. [AP / Avet Demourian]
- Azerbaijan's foreign ministry said Monday that Armenia shelled villages in "gross violation" of the ceasefire, while Armenia's defense ministry said Azerbaijan used artillery fire on the front lines 45 minutes after the truce took effect. [Al Jazeera]
| | | | | | | Eight days before Election Day, early voting numbers already exceed 2016 totals. Democrats built huge leads in early voting, but Republicans are beginning to cut into the margins. | | | [Politico / Marc Caputo and Sabrina Rodríguez] -
Hurricane season is still not over. Tropical Storm Zeta, the 27th named storm of the 2020 season, is expected to strengthen into a hurricane as it approaches the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico and the US Gulf Coast. [CBS News / Jeff Berardelli] -
Pope Francis on Sunday appointed Wilton Gregory, the archbishop of Washington, DC, a cardinal, making him the first African American cardinal. [NYT / Elizabeth Dias and Jason Horowitz] -
Typhoon Molave, locally known as Quinta, has struck the Philippines, forcing nearly 25,000 people to evacuate their homes. [Bloomberg / Cecilia Yap] -
Remember those "murder hornets" everyone was talking about in May? On Saturday, crews in Washington state dismantled the first giant hornet nest found in the US, vacuuming it out of a tree. [Axios / Rebecca Falconer] | | | | | "Just finished the 3-5am shift on the Senate floor in protest of the vote later today on radical Amy Coney Barrett. She will rule to invalidate Obamacare, causing 23M to lose insurance in the middle of a pandemic. Catastrophic. Both sad and furious on my rainy drive home." | | | | | | | | | | |
There are few issues on which the stakes of this election are quite as stark as on health care. [Spotify / Ezra Klein] | | | | | | | | |  | This email was sent to edwardlorilla1986.paxforex@blogger.com. Manage your email preferences, or unsubscribe to stop receiving all emails from Vox. If you value Vox's unique explanatory journalism, support our work with a one-time or recurring contribution. Vox Media, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036.
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