WASHINGTON — Republicans brushed aside a boycott by Democrats Thursday and advanced the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the full Senate for a vote on confirmation.
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee did not appear for a panel vote, placing instead in their seats cardboard cutouts of photographs
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