⁍ U.S. Senate Republicans pledged to go ahead with a vote on Thursday on President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Amy Barrett.

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⁍ Just hours earlier, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and Judiciary Committee Democrats said they would not show up for the vote.

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⁍ They have been urging Republicans to await the results of the Nov. 3 presidential election before advancing a nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy.

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– Senate Democrats say they won’t show up for a Thursday vote on President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee—but Republicans say they’re going ahead with the vote anyway. “Judge Barrett deserves a vote and she will receive a vote,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham said in a statement, per Reuters. Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, said in a statement that the nomination process has been a “sham” from the beginning and that it’s time for Republicans to wait for the results of the election on Nov. 3 before moving forward with the nomination. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to hold a procedural vote Sunday to limit debate on the nomination of Barrett, an appeals court judge from Wisconsin, to fill the vacancy left by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in September, the AP reports. Democrats have been fiercely opposed to Barrett, a federal appeals court judge whose confirmation by the Republican-led Senate would expand the top US judicial body’s conservative majority to 6-3. McConnell, who has made confirmation of Trump’s conservative judicial appointees a high priority, has been working to get Barrett confirmed to the lifetime post before Election Day, as the Republican president has requested. Trump has said he believes the Supreme Court will decide the election’s outcome as he faces Democratic challenger Joe Biden, and has made clear he wants Barrett on the bench for any election-related cases. No nominee to the Supreme Court has ever been confirmed by the Senate this close to a presidential election.