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“The Senate should not fill this vacancy until after the American people have elected their next president and a new Congress,” Biden said shortly after President Donald Trump announced the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett.
Replaces Bader Ginsburg
Trump predicts that Barrett, a deeply conservative judge, will soon be approved by the Senate, the chamber of Congress that questions and approves federal judges and where Republicans have a majority.
In that case, Coney Barrett will replace Liberal Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who passed away last Friday.
He refused to question Garland
The swift nomination runs counter to the process that Trump’s own party, the Republicans, advocated four years ago. Then Trump’s Democratic Rep. Barack Obama tried to have attorney Merrick Garland succeed HD Judge Antonin Scalia, who later died. But Republicans, led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, emphasized that it was an election year and claimed that the next HD judge would be appointed by the next president, and refused to even question Garland.
