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Trump doubts Ginsburg’s dying wish, urges quick replacement
US President Donald Trump, pictured at an event Monday, expressed doubts about the will of the late Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Donald Trump has questioned whether Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dying wish really came from the late judge. The president of the United States wants a quick replacement.
US President Donald Trump has expressed doubts about the late Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dying wish for his successor, which, according to a media report, he is said to have dictated to his granddaughter. “My fervent wish is that they do not replace me until a new president is in office,” Ginsburg is said to have said a few days before his death, NPR radio station reported, citing his granddaughter Clara Spera. Trump told Fox News on Monday that he did not know if Ginsburg had said that or if it was formulated by his Democratic opponents in Congress, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Adam Schiff. “I’d rather deal with the second,” Trump said. “Maybe he did, maybe he didn’t.”
The liberal judge died Friday of complications from cancer at the age of 87. Controversy has broken out over the successor. Trump would like to get a candidate for the vacant Senate seat before the November 3 election. Democrats, on the other hand, are demanding that the winner of this year’s election settle the succession. House Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday that the Senate would vote for a US Supreme Court candidate nominated by US President Donald Trump later this year. Contrary to what the Democrats claim, there is plenty of time and good reasons for this.
Various memorial ceremonies planned for the late Ginsburg
Trump said Monday that he would prefer a vote on who will succeed Ginsburg before the presidential election. He reiterated that he would nominate a woman for the position and announce his selection on Friday or Saturday. Five candidates are shortlisted. Trump confirmed that among them are judges Amy Coney Barrett, 48, of Chicago and Barbara Lagoa, 52, of Florida, who are considered favorites by the US media. Barrett and Lagoa are described as conservative Catholics who oppose abortion, for example.
Ginsburg, on the other hand, was a liberal activist for women’s rights and an icon of the civil rights movement. She died on Friday at the age of 87 after suffering from cancer. Several memorial ceremonies for the veteran constitutional judge are scheduled in Washington this week. According to the Supreme Court, the funeral is only scheduled for next week in a private setting at Arlington National Cemetery.
Filling the vacant seat on the US Supreme Court could have far-reaching consequences for the country’s sociopolitical orientation. Of the nine seats on the Supreme Court, only three are held by liberals after Ginsburg’s death, the remaining five justices are considered conservative. A much more conservative America could emerge with decisions on abortion rights, immigration issues, or civil rights. Since judges are appointed for life, Trump could cement the conservative majority for years or even decades by appointing a relatively young judge.
Trump wants to strengthen the conservative majority in the Supreme Court
Constitutional judges are nominated by the president and must be confirmed by a simple majority in the Senate, one of the two houses of Congress. About a third of the 100 Senate seats will be available for elections on November 3.
Senate Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer urged his Republican adversary McConnell to honor Ginsburg’s request. Schumer noted that McConnell had blocked a candidate for President Barack Obama to succeed the late Conservative Constitutional Judge Antonin Scalia in the 2016 election year. McConnell had said more than eight months before the 2016 election: “The American people should have a I am voting to elect your next Supreme Court justice, so this position should not be filled until we have a new president. ”
Trump is striving for a quick replacement to strengthen the conservative majority on the Supreme Court. The dispute over the successor is likely to shape the heated phase of the US election campaign. Trump warned at a campaign rally Monday: “If Joe Biden and the Democrats come to power, they will fill the Supreme Court with left-wing radicals who will unilaterally change American society beyond recognition.” Trump supporters chanted “Fill the Seat”, in German something like: occupy the seat.
