evidence: The moral floor then dropped even lower. Last year, immediately following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Senator McConnell shrugged aside his own "election year" rule and rushed to fill her seat mere weeks before Election Day, and at a time when millions of people were already voting. Instead of addressing the many urgent challenges gripping the nation — from the global pandemic to the racial reckoning that followed George Floyd’s murder to rampant election disinformation — President Trump nominated then-U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett at an event that became the source of a COVID-19 outbreak.[40] The Senate majority similarly ignored the desperate crises that demanded congressional attention and rushed her nomination through. In a reckless and incomprehensible move, the Senate majority even decided to hold a hearing despite the fact that multiple members of the Senate Judiciary Committee tested positive for COVID-19.[41] The hearing threatened the health and safety of senators and staff. [...] [42]Tillman, Zoe. "Republicans Are Moving Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Nomination Faster Than Any Supreme Court Nominee Since 1975." BuzzFeed News. September 28, 2020. [43] See., e.g., Hulse, Carl. "How Mitch McConnell Delivered Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Rapid Confirmation." The New York Times. October 27, 2020; Levine, Marianne. "McConnell fends off accusations of hypocrisy over holding Supreme Court vote." Politico. September 21, 2020.