“This past February, our Senate Republican colleagues proved that no matter how unfair, unAmerican, and unpatriotic President Trump’s misconduct is, they will always have his back. Despite evidence and law proving the President sought illegal dirt on Joe Biden from a foreign government, Senators Murkowski, Senator Collins and their Republican colleagues exonerated Donald J. Trump because, unfortunately, they will do nothing to get in the way of the President’s exercise of raw political power. And with this nomination on the eve of the election, the Senate is asked to do so again. We, the Democratic members of the Judiciary Committee, ask our Republican colleagues to embrace their member Lindsey Graham’s words. “I want you to use my words against me. If there's a Republican president [...] and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let's let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination." We, the Democratic members of the Judiciary Committee invite the leadership of this committee to follow Senator Graham’s words and let the next President, whoever it might be, nominate the next Supreme Court justice. We respectfully ask the chair, our colleague from Iowa, to adjourn this hearing until such time. If it is to go forward at this time, it will do so in our absence.” Signed, Sen. Kamala Harris, on her behalf and on behalf of Senators ___.