Republicans are so desperate to ram through SCOTUS confirmation less than 2 weeks before election day, that they're willing to literally risk lives to vote before CDC says it is safe. That tells you everything you need to know about the profound illegitimacy of their actions.

If the vote on a lifetime appointment to the most powerful court in the country cannot wait 13 days, then it is not consistent with basic small d democratic principles. Constitutional technicalities do not change that.

Republicans were hoping they could bluster their way through this by pretending it was all just business as usual and there was nothing to see here. They are full of it. This is a desperate power grab. And now it's laid bare for the world (and their own constituents) to see.

The fact that Amy Coney Barrett would go along with this says everything we need to know about her character.