'To jam this nomination through the Senate is just an exercise in raw political power,' Joe Biden says. 'I don’t believe the people of this nation will stand for it.'
He called on Senate Republicans to help"de-escalate" tensions in the country and to follow their"conscious," saying they should"cool the flames that have been engulfing our country."
While Biden said he would not be releasing a list of potential nominees he would put forward, like Trump, the former vice president again hinted that his nominee would be a Black woman. He said however that by releasing a list of potential picks, he could give the appearance of improperly influencing their decision-making while exposing them to political attacks.
Biden spoke after Trump earlier this weekend pledged to quickly fill Ginsburg's seat with a female nominee. An early frontrunner is Amy Coney Barrett, a 48-year-old federal appeals court judgeMcConnell, meanwhile, has pledged a swift confirmation process amid criticism from Biden and other leading Democrats that he is being hypocritical in light of his 2016 efforts to thwart then-President Barack Obama's Supreme Court pick Merrick Garland, a federal appeals court judge.
"In the last midterm election before Justice Scalia's death in 2016, Americans elected a Republican Senate majority because we pledged to check and balance the last days of a lame-duck president's second term," he said in a statement."We kept our promise. Since the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed an opposite-party president's Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year.""Voters elected Donald J.
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