Democrat Senator Chris Coons has admitted that the Democrats do not have the votes to block Amy Coney Barrett from being confirmed to the Supreme Court.

According to Fox News:

With Republicans holding the Senate majority and seemingly having the votes to confirm Barrett, Democrats say they don’t have a silver bullet to stop the fast-tracked confirmation schedule that will kick off Monday.

“There’s no procedural move that I’m aware of that allows the minority to slow this process down at all,” said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del. “And trust me, I’ve asked a lot.

“That’s one of the things that I think the general public doesn’t quite appreciate is that as long as the [GOP] majority is willing to change the rules and is willing to insist on moving ahead when it is demonstrably unsafe, unwise and unprecedented to do so, there’s nothing the [Democratic] minority can do to stop them.”

Republicans hold a 53-seat majority in the Senate. Only two GOP Senators — Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine — have rejected pushing through the Barrett nomination just days before the presidential election. Four years ago Republicans blocked President Obama’s nominee of Merrick Garland on the grounds his March 2016 nomination was too close to the November election when the American public would have a say.

Coons statted that he is not optimistic that the Democrats can convince two Senators to join Senators Collins and Murkowski in their stance that confirmation shouldn’t occur until a presidential election is decided.

Another issue he failed to address is the fact that Murkowski has stated that she is open to voting confirm Amy Coney Barrett should a vote take place.

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