The Accelerated Timeline for Confirming a Supreme Court Nominee

The confirmation process for a Supreme Court nominee typically takes six to eight weeks. But with Republicans saying that they want Coney Barrett confirmed before the election, there's no way that that happens here. The FBI typically does their own fully detailed look into a nominee's background and then staffers comb through answers provided by nominees. So it's so much work that typically there is a 28 day minimum period between receipt of the completed questionnaire responses and any hearing.