The vacancy of justice of the Supreme Court of the United States caused by the death of Ginsburg suddenly becomes a key issue for the presidential elections

Entry 2020.09.20 09:09

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Icon of the progressive women’s movement How to fill vacancies caused by the death of US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Vader Ginsburg has become a key issue in the US presidential race with less than 50 days to go .

According to CNN on the 19th (local time), President Donald Trump told reporters that “I will announce next week an option to fill the vacancy due to the death of Ginsburg, and it will probably be a woman.”

Currently, the Supreme Court of the United States consists of a president and eight justices of the Supreme Court. There is no provision on the number of Supreme Courts in the Constitution, and it is decided by Congress. If someone resigns or dies because it is for life, there will be no vacancy.

Since the Supreme Court ruling had a profound social impact, the President of the United States was routinely asked to keep conservative and progressive Supreme Court justices in the middle so that the ruling was not skewed towards either of the the parts.

However, since President Trump took office, he has nominated a conservative Supreme Court justice. With the current ideological topography of the Supreme Court being ‘Conservatives 5 Big Progressives 4’, if President Trump reappoints a conservative Supreme Justice, he will become more conservative than now as ‘Conservatives 6 Big Progressives 3’.

The candidates that President Trump is strongly considering are Judges Amy Coney Barrett of the 7th Federal Court of Appeals and Judge Barbara Lagoa of the 11th Federal Court of Appeals, Reuters said. Amy is a devout Catholic and famous as an anti-abortionist.

The Democratic Party is vigorously protesting the suspension of the Supreme Court justice nomination until the end of the presidential election, but there is currently no way to stop the nomination. After being nominated by the president, he must go through the US Senate approval process, but the Republican Party currently holds 100 seats and 53 seats, so it is likely to pass.

The Democratic Party criticized the Republican Party for turning its 2016 argument 180 degrees. At the time, when the conservative Supreme Court Justice died 10 months before the election, former President Barack Obama tried to name a replacement, but the Republican secretary of the House, Mitch McConnell, blocked it saying: “It is not possible during the electoral period.”

Democratic candidate Joe Biden has said that he will appoint a black woman to the Supreme Court if he becomes president. Some Democrats argue that if Biden is elected in the November 3 presidential election and the Democratic Party dominates the Senate, he should consider increasing the number of federal judges as a whole to increase the number of progressive judges.

Experts predict that since Ginsburg was an icon of the progressive and feminist movement in American society, if President Trump placed a conservative person in his successor, he would join the conservative and progressive sides.

“The biggest impact is that it creates a new interest for both of you,” said Joel Payne, a political strategist who worked in the camp of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election. It’s not bad for the Democratic Party, “he said.