Trump votes on replacing Judge Bader Ginsburg to ruin last wish

The United States Senate Majority Leader has vowed to go ahead with President Trump’s candidate to replace Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, which could thwart the pioneering feminist’s last wish.

The 87-year-old legal power revealed her last wish to her granddaughter Clara Spera just days before losing her battle with cancer on Friday, telling her she did not want to be replaced “until a new president had been installed.”

“My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed,” Bader Ginsburg told his granddaughter, according to NPR.

The next president of the United States will take office in January and a prominent Republican is already indicating that they will not wait until then to install the replacement for Bader Ginsburg.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell paid tribute to Bader Ginsburg in a statement, but also promised, “President Trump’s candidate will receive a vote in the full United States Senate.”

However, Republican Senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski have previously said they would not approve a new judge this close to the election. A vote would be fruitless if two more Republicans decide to vote against the nominee.

US President Donald Trump has not released his views on a replacement, only tweeting a statement that Bader Ginsburg was a “titan of the law,” who had a brilliant mind and had lived an extraordinary life. .

No Democrat is expected to vote for a conservative judge.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said: “The American people must have a voice in selecting their next Supreme Court Justice.”

“Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president,” he tweeted.

Ironically, McConnell denied a vote in the Senate to Barack Obama’s nominee Merrick Garland after Justice Antonin Scalia died before the 2016 presidential election.

In his statement on Bader Ginsberg’s death, McConnell said: “In the last midterm elections before Judge Scalia’s death in 2016, Americans elected a Republican majority in the Senate because we were committed to controlling and balancing the last days of the second mandate of a lame president, he kept our promise.

“Since the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court candidate from an opposing party president in a presidential election year.

“By contrast, Americans re-elected our majority in 2016 and expanded it in 2018 because we committed to working with President Trump and supporting his agenda, particularly his prominent appointments to the judiciary. Once again, we will deliver on our promise.”

Obama stepped in and said that Bader Ginsburg “fought to the end, through his cancer, with an unshakable faith in our democracy and its ideals.”

“This is how we remember her. But she also left instructions on how she wanted her legacy to be honored,” he tweeted, providing a link to a full statement.

“Four and a half years ago, when Republicans refused to hold a hearing or vote for or against Merrick Garland, they invented the principle that the Senate should not fill a vacant Supreme Court seat before a vote is filed. new president. He was sworn in, “said his statement.

“A basic principle of the law, and of everyday justice, is that we apply the rules consistently and not based on what is convenient or advantageous at the time.”

Trump announced that he would fly flags at the White House, all public buildings, grounds and military bases across the country until sundown on the day of his funeral.

Bader Ginsberg’s death was announced by the Supreme Court, which said the cause was complications from pancreatic cancer.

“Associate Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg died tonight surrounded by her family at her home in Washington, DC, due to complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer,” said spokeswoman Kathy Arberg.

An architect of the legal struggle for women’s rights in the 1970s, Bader Ginsburg subsequently served 27 years on the highest court in the country, becoming its most prominent member.

She was the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court.

Chief Justice John Roberts said the United States had lost a “jurist of historic stature.”

“In the Supreme Court we have lost a dear colleague,” he said in a statement.

“Today we cry, but with the confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her, a tireless and determined defender of justice.”

Bader Ginsburg battled cancer for more than a decade.

He underwent surgery to remove lung cancer in late 2018.