On this mornings washington journal the duties of the office on which im about to enter, so help me god. At the white house last night, Amy Coney Barrett becomes a 115th justice to the Supreme Court and the fifth woman to the court in its 231 year history. This happened hours after the senate voted 5248 to confirm the 48yearold justice, President Trumps third nominee to the Supreme Court. Your reaction this morning, republicans democrats and us on twitter as well remember you can text us with your first name, city and state. Lets begin with Amy Coney Barrett at the white house yesterday. She delivered rare remarks for a justice just sworn into the high court, he or she is. The confirmation process has made ever clear to me one of the fundamental differences between the federal judiciary and the United States senate. Acute isps the most the role of policy preferences. Of a senator to pursue her policy preferences. In fact, it would be a dereliction of duty for her to put policy goals aside. By contrast, it is the job of a judge to resist her policy preferences. It would be a dereliction of duty for her to give into them. Federal judges do not stand for election, thus they have no basis for claiming that their preferences reflect those of the people. Duty fromation of political preference is what makes the judiciary distinct among the three branches of government. Independenceres not only from congress and the president but also from the private beliefs that might otherwise move her. The judicial oath captures the essence of the judicial duty, the rule of law must always control. Americans, even though we judges dont face alexion, we still work for you. Dont face election, we still work for you. The oath that i have solemnly taken tonight means, at its core, that i will do my job without any fear or favor and that i will do so independently of both the political branches and of my own preferences. I love the constitution and the democratic republic that it establishes and i will devote myself to preserving it. Barrett at the white house last night after being sworn in as the 115th justice of the Supreme Court. The washington front page this morning from the Washington Post this morning in a different article by the Washington Post your reaction, james in seattle, washington, independent, youre up first, good morning to you. Caller good morning and thank you. The real reason why the democrats dont make it a priority and Mitch Mcconnell did what he did in the Senate Democrats allow him, they dont make a big deal of it. When a republican puts on these what right wing judges, they are all white people. The whole white race, democrats and republicans maintains the White Privilege and democrats dont make it a big issue. They see nothing wrong with putting this judge on the Supreme Court because the constitution really means nothing, its just a piece of paper and it can be interpreted to mean anything, slavery, jim , its left up to interpretation and these judges are allowed to interpret whatever they want. There is nothing in the constitution it says they cannot put this judge on. Ae democrats could have made recess appointment of a judge when obama was in. Its not a priority to them. It really doesnt matter if the judge it doesnt take away the white peoples rights. Host is it a priority for you . Caller its not really a priority to me because its not against the rules of the law. Doing people doing something that they dont like but the constitution doesnt prohibit this. It doesnt prohibit the democrats of they really want to do something. They need to put two judges on, one for garland and one for ginsberg. They dont care about it. Mitch mcconnell said he wanted to make president obama a one term president. They say what they want to do and the constitution is fundamentally flawed and its a racist manifesto. Host are you arguing for democrats putting more justices on the court if they get power . Caller thats what im saying, they can do it. The constitution does not prohibit it. Host im asking you if you want them to do it. Caller yes, i do, yes. Host dan from stafford, virginia, republican, good morning to you. Caller i am really glad this is over. In a lott was done better way than the previous Supreme Court judge. I did not appreciate the decor of some of the sensors senators last night with hand motions or other things they itered in the last caller, dont think what youre saying is helping anything. I dont see what the last guys point was. Thank you for allowing me to speak. Host pam in burlington, north carolina, democratic caller. Caller i can tell you what is less point was. His last point was that when the written, thisas , and you240 years ago cannot read the constitution as it was then. Its a living, breathing document. Therefore, thats where amendments come in. He was talking about when it was written, slavery was legal. That are really against now was seemed ok then. Host your reaction to Amy Coney Barrett serving on the court and the process to put her there . Caller i think the process was the height of hypocrisy. I dont think, there is nothing in the constitution that says they couldnt do it. So, in that case, i get it. When it comes to what they were 2016, thatebruary of we shouldnt do it in an election year, the people have a right to their voice than two months from the election, they are doing it. All of them came out and said this. Nowexcuses they are using they werent using them. Then, its the height of hypocrisy and i dont agree with it at all and especially her. She wouldnt be there if we go by the constitution as it was written. Host why do you say that . Caller no woman would be on the Supreme Court. If we were to go by the constitution as it was written them. Host i understand, what do you want democrats to do in response . Um, i do agree with joe biden that they should have a Bipartisan Commission put together and go over what they should do. I dont think a decision to should be named i dont think a decision should be made now. Host that is a headline and politico recently look at the tweets from congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez the president also sending out a tweet saying bidens handler wants to expand the court. This is from this morning. Joe and independent in rockville center, new york, how big an issue is this for you . I watch the commentary last night on cspan and some of the commentators online. You didnt watch commentary on cspan because we dont have it. Right, i was watching it and what troubled me more than anything else is american adversaries are winning. America is great because americas good and when america ceases to be good, america ceases to be great. I really, truly worry about the division in this country and whoever is rooting against america is probably cheering all this thats going on. It really does troubled me to the point that we are playing small ball here when our adversaries are playing the long game and i worry that this experiment of american democracy is altering now and i pray to god that i am wrong. What i saw last night was really something of a political maneuver. It was Justice Stevens that said the Supreme Courts wearing it should never happen on the grounds of the white house and should happen at the court. To see both the new justice and President Trump on the white house balcony just symbolized what is wrong with this country. I really hope and pray that we get to a new day when america does actually returned to being good. Host what is the impact of this on the Supreme Court . Caller maam, i wish i was smart enough to know that. I hope and pray that the court can actually look through the fog of politics and follow the law. There is no question in my mind that she is qualified to be a Supreme Court justice but i think the hypocrisy that was previously mentioned rings large this morning and i hope that she can see through the political fog and apply the law fairly and equitably to all. Fivethirtyeight. Com has this piece here is democratic senator and Judiciary Committee member Richard Blumenthal on the floor about thistalking process and the impact of it. [video clip] whats happening today is sad , surreal, even shocking. Eight days away from an election , in an unprecedented rush to confirm a Supreme Court nominee. Are taking the place of the next president and the next senate and confirming the next justice. Even as the American People are denied a voice and a say in that decision. Whats happening here is not republicanuse our colleagues have explicitly broken their word. We have submitted to the dishy Harry Committee to the Judiciary Committee cummaquid from 17 of them saying there would be no confirmation of a next justice during an election year. Fact, normal because in historically, no justice has been confirmed after july in an election year. Is not normal because we are here in the midst of a pandemic. Confirming a justice who would potentially guesstimate our Health Care System now in the middle of a health care crisis. Because themal administration has said as recently as sunday through his chief of staff that there is no control over this pandemic. This abject surrender is shameful. And disgraceful. Host that was senater Richard Blumenthal on the floor last night. It was only republicans who voted to approve Amy Coney Barrett. One republican, senator susan collins, up for reelection this year from the state of maine, did not vote for her. This is the headline from the press harold and her senator mitt romney voted for judge barrett. Here is the headline from the salt lake tribune. Here he is on the floor arguing why he decided to vote yes. [video clip] judge barrett wrote in a thes law review that if courts opinions change with its membership, Public Confidence in the court as an institution might decline. Its members might be seen as partisan rather than impartial and case law as fueled by power rather than reason. Consideration of institutional legitimacy has long been a factor in the courts deliberations. But i would argue that this factor should be given even as so manyght today of our other institutions are diminished and under attack. Truewould be particularly where the court called upon to decide a matter that would determine the outcome of a president ial election. View, it is of paramount importance that such a decision follow the law and the constitution where it leads, regardless of the outcome and thereby be beyond reproach, clearly nonpolitical and preferably unanimous. Soon send judge barrett to the highest court in the land. I am confident she is up to the measure of the times in which we now live. Senator on the floor yesterday. That was before the vote was held, 52 republicans voted yes to put her on the Supreme Court. There is one more step up her last nights swearing at the white house. The chief justice, john roberts, will administer the judicial ble justice honora Coney Barrett in a private ceremony today in the east Conference Room at the Supreme Court. Then there will be a formal Investiture Ceremony that will take place at a special sitting of the court in the courtroom at a later date. Because of the pandemic, the court is not gathering together to hear cases. They are doing it virtually and there are cases that begin already next week or the week after. Justice Amy Coney Barrett is expected to begin work as early as tuesday. Boston, an eugene in independent, good morning to you. Caller good morning. And thank you for cspan. Nomination of judge barrett, i wasnt for it or against it. Is that now six of the nine Supreme Court justices are of catholic faith. I dont feel thats really reflective of america at this time because there is other denominations of catholicism as well. Where is the methodist, protestant, baptist, christian . I wouldnt want to see six judges of nine of anyone faith. I just dont feel comfortable with that. Same catholic faith that has been destroying the lives of children all over the world for centuries. Church, whatsic been going on with the destruction of children is not new. Thats been going on for centuries. I think thats really a reflection of what america really is. I. Think its really sad in kentucky, a republican, good morning to you. Your reaction to Amy Coney Barrett being confirmed to the Supreme Court . I support her and think she is qualified and i trust her to be a lady that will make fair decisions in the land that we live in. Its hard to get fair decisions anymore. Crime were accused of a and you had a jury of the mob democrats and what went on in 2020, how would you feel sitting facing a jury like that . When everything is wrong, nothing the president has done is right. This lady, look how they criticized her and her qualifications are supreme. I am glad and i hope that our Supreme Court will make just and fair decisions, not be put in place to make an activist decision. What the senator just said before i came on. I stand with him and our country. We need good leadership. Thank you very much. In milwaukee, wisconsin, democratic caller, the Supreme Court added another justice but also made a big decision for wisconsin yesterday. Your thoughts on both . Caller i am really upset about it. But its what i expect from trump. Trump, to me, has only had to go since hes been in the white house and thats to destroy obamas legacy and steal tax dollars. Its because of his jealousy and racism toward obama. He is not concerned about the millions of people that are losing their health care. He is not concerned about the millions of people that are protected but from preexisting conditions. Other preexisting conditions and the other issue. I lost my train of thought. My daughter covered ton being the age of 26 on that really makes a difference because i have two College Students and they dont make enough money to provide their own health care. They are just working small jobs just to keep money in their pocket. That really made a huge difference in my life and my sisters life who had college age students. My daughter, when she became able to provide her own health care, she did have obamacare. She was able to pay the premium and at the end of a year, she did not have a problem with them taking it out of her taxes to cover the amount she was not able because she didnt have the finances to pay upfront. So she paid through her taxes and we are grateful for that. She had dental and health care. Jealousy forhis obama is going to cost a lot of people lives. He has only one goal. The amount of satisfaction he is getting just because its obamacare and making people suffer during a pandemic. He doesnt care. I dont know when people will wake up. He doesnt care about them either. He is practicing herd immunity at his rallies. He is using them as experiments. Thats what he wants and thats why hes not trying to fight the pandemic because he wants herd immunity and thats why hes not giving nancy pelosi the funds for the stimulus because he doesnt want to provide protection for americans. Schools to have protection or jobs to have protection. He wants everybody to go out and get infected and he doesnt care about who dies except for his immediate family. They are notlieve amongst the crowds and they are protected and the only reason he is protected he is out there is is because he was already infected. He only cares about himself. Host on the Supreme Courts decision yesterday, let me fill in for viewers who may have missed this the Supreme Court upheld wisconsins voting laws monday, rejecting an effort to require the counting of absentee ballots that are sent back to Election Officials on or just before election day. Means that3 ruling absentee balance will only be counted if they are in the hounds of municipal clerks by the time the polls close on november 3. The justices determined the court should not be the ones to decide the election rules amid the coronavirus pandemic that is surging in wisconsin and around the world. Care. You mentioned health i want to share this piece from you from the los angeles times. Its from their deputy Editorial Board editor. In his opinion that question comes before the court november 10, go to our www. Cspan. Org for our coverage of that oral argument. William, an independent, good morning. What is your reaction to just as on the Supreme Court . Caller i think its a good thing because even though this is an election year, our have a job toces do. They are doing their job. Irregardless of the pandemic, regardless because of the politicized they are everything. They need tos take a step back and do their job. Playing games,it trying to curry favor amongst the citizens. We are the american party. Ok . We are not all democrats, we are not all republicans, we are not all independents, we are not all liberals, we are the American People and the American People put them in office to do a job, period. If you are not going to do cookeville, tennessee. Toler a great big thank you harry reid, it was not for him changing the r