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Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
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Donald Trump’s party plans to quickly beat a candidate to succeed Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The Democrats demand to wait for the presidential elections.
reThe US Senate would vote for a preferred candidate of President Donald Trump to succeed the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the election. This was announced on Friday by the leader of the Republican majority of the House of Representatives, Mitch McConnell. On the same day, according to the Supreme Court, Ginsburg died at the age of 87 from complications of pancreatic cancer.
When Conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died in February 2016, also in an election year, McConnell rejected a Senate vote on Justice Merrick Garland, who was nominated by then-President Barack Obama. The vacant seat in the highest US court was only filled after Donald Trump’s surprise victory in November 2016. During his tenure, he has already appointed two conservative justices to the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
There are still around 50 days until the next presidential election. Democrats demanded that the now vacant judge position be filled only after the November elections. The American people should have a say in the selection of the next Supreme Court justice, wrote Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Twitter. “Therefore, this position should not be filled until we have a new president.”
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden made a similar statement: “Surely the voters must choose the president, and the president must nominate the judge to the Senate,” he says. That is the position that the Senate must take.
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