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Trump Moves Quickly to Fill Supreme Court Seat
Thanks to rules they changed in 2013, Senate Democrats have almost no hope of stopping him.
Following the sad passing of Supreme Court Justice and progressive icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg last week, U.S. President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans are moving quickly to fill her seat on the nation’s highest court.
Though he faces stiff opposition from Democrats who insist filling the seat is disrespectful and defies 2016 precedent for confirming judges in an election year, President Trump plans to announce his nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court very soon.
“I’m going to make a decision on either Friday or Saturday,” Mr. Trump said in a Monday interview on “Fox & Friends”. “I will announce it either Friday or Saturday, and then the work begins.”
Trump added that the White House will wait to announce a nominee until after funeral services are concluded, “in all due respect” to Ginsburg.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on September 18, 2020, due to complications from pancreatic cancer. She was 87 years old. The late justice will be the first woman in history to lie in state at the Capitol, then is expected to have a private funeral service and burial at Arlington National Cemetery later in the week.