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The Republican National Committee is putting Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation fight front and center with voters just weeks before Election Day. — ABC News: Top Stories
A Times/Siena College poll showed that 56 percent said the next president should nominate a Supreme Court justice. And Joe Biden retained a clear lead over President Trump, 49 to 41 percent. — NYT: Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns
President Donald Trump told Fox & Friends co-host Pete Hegseth that he thinks his nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, will be a textualist. — FOX News: Paul Best
Former President Barack Obama has added his name to the list of prominent Democrats endorsing the Rev. Raphael Warnock in Georgia’s special U.S. Senate election. — ABC News: Top Stories
President Trump on Thursday said his Democratic opponent Joe Biden “should leave the campaign” in the wake of the release of a Senate GOP report detailing Hunter Biden’s extensive overseas business dealings, claiming the former vice president “knew everything.” — FOX News:
A former top official in the NSC has accused Trump Administration officials of political intervention in the pre-publication review process for John Bolton’s book. — ABC News: Top Stories
Doctors treating Aleksei Navalny said he had been discharged after 32 days of treatment and could make a full recovery. NYT: Melissa Eddy
A career official said political appointees “commandeered” the prepublication review process of John Bolton’s memoir. — NYT: Michael S. Schmidt and Charlie Savage
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was to lay in repose outside the Supreme Court Wednesday for an unprecedented public viewing. — ABC News: Top Stories