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It's 'all hands on deck' this week in Senate on Trump court nominee

Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the US Supreme Court, meets with Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn, on Capitol Hill in Washington. [AP]

Senate Republicans turn in earnest this week towards making good on President Donald Trump's top objective in Congress ahead of the November 3 election - placing his nominee Amy Coney Barrett on the US Supreme Court and moving it even further to the right over furious Democratic objections.

A four-day Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for the conservative appellate court judge is set to begin today, a key step before a final full Senate vote by the end of October on her nomination for a lifetime job on the court.

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