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Trump Could Refuse to Fill Supreme Court Seat Until After Election
If Trump wants to win in November, it’s the ultimate power move.
With the sad recent passing of progressive luminary and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Democratic Party is united in collective horror. That the administration of U.S. President Donald J. Trump might fill another Supreme Court vacancy, and just before the election, has liberals feeling quite faint.
The Democratic Party should hope he does. The alternative, as far as positively impacting Donald Trump’s reelection chances, might be even more unthinkable.
If Trump wants to fill a Supreme Court vacancy and please elected Republicans and conservative voters, he will move to fill the plum spot as soon as possible. Elected Republicans and conservative voters are certainly clamoring for it.
Not only is the Supreme Court seat now vacant, unlike Trump’s last appointment, this is a seat formerly held by a stalwartly liberal justice. The opportunity to flip a liberal seat on the Supreme Court while Republicans control the executive branch and the Senate may prove impossible to resist. As far as Trump’s base in concerned, filling a vacant seat on the Supreme Court is a no-brainer.
However, if Trump really wants to be reelected- if he wants to win over undecided…