Judge Amy Coney Barrett listens, while wearing a protective face mask due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, during her U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing to serve as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., October 12, 2020. REUTERS/Leah Millis/Pool
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The risk of COVID-19 hung over Monday's opening of Amy Coney Barrett's U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings, with the Senate hearing room including the judge's children and at least one lawmaker who tested positive for the disease.
Republican President Donald Trump formally nominated Barrett at a packed Sept. 26 White House ceremony. Days later, he and a spate of advisers tested positive for the respiratory disease that has killed more than 214,000 people in the United States.
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