⁍ Democratic lawmakers on Sunday warned that if the U.S. Senate approves President Donald Trump’s third Supreme Court nominee, Amy Barrett, she could cast a decisive vote to strike down the Obamacare health law.

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⁍ With Republicans controlling the Senate, Democrats have little leverage to prevent a quick vote on Barrett before the Nov. 3 election.

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⁍ Their attacks appeared aimed at energizing their political base with an issue that is already a talking point for Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden.

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– President Trump’s nominee to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court is set to head to the Senate for confirmation hearings next month—and Democrats aren’t happy about it. “I want to ask her point blank … whether or not her position is that we should end the Affordable Care Act providing health insurance for 20 million Americans and protections for Americans from one coast to the other from pre-existing conditions being used against them to buy health insurance,” Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin said on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, per Reuters. “How do I explain to the 800,000 people that their pre-existing conditions are not going to be covered and that they’re not going to have the ability to even buy insurance?” Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin also raised the issue, saying, “How do I explain to the 800,000 people that their pre-existing conditions are not going to be covered and that they’re not going to have the ability to even buy insurance?” Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on Fox News Sunday that Democrats are “going nuts” over the nomination and activists are “putting pressure on senators to destroy” Amy Barrett, the president’s third Supreme Court nominee. “This is exactly what he promised to do and he is fulfilling that promise,” he said. Republican Sen. Mike Lee said on ABC that he doesn’t expect a backlash because Trump campaigned on appointing conservative justices.