Witnesses appearing before a congressional subcommittee Tuesday warned of the conservative influence on the federal judiciary under the Trump administration, as Senate Republicans on the other side of the Capitol appeared to have enough votes to confirm President Donald Trump’s forthcoming nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The hearing, which included topics such as the influence of groups like the Federalist Society on judicial selections, has long been in the works, but the vacancy caused by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death cast the proceeding in a new light. “I don’t need to tell you that this hearing has taken on new weight, given the events of the past week,” Rep. Hank Johnson, the chairman of the House Judiciary’s courts subcommittee, said at the start of the hearing.

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