Senator Elizabeth Warren said Republicans want to 'tilt' the U.S. Supreme Court 'so that it doesn't reflect the values of the majority of Americans.'
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren said Monday that some health care laws could be in danger if President Donald Trump places another appointee on the U.S. Supreme Court.
If a Trump nominee is confirmed, she would be the third Supreme Court Justice appointed by President Trump. That would increase the conservative majority in the U.S. Supreme Court to six justices who would hear cases along with three liberal justices. "And yet by carefully filtering who gets nominated to the United States Supreme Court, by stealing a second seat on the United States Supreme Court, what Donald Trump and the Republicans are planning to do is to have that court impose a will on the American people that is not who we are and not the America that we want to be," Warren added.
Warren decried McConnell's statement during a candlelight vigil for Ginsburg on Saturday."Mitch McConnell believes this fight is over," Warren said."What Mitch McConnell does not understand is this fight has just begun."McConnell's determination to install a new justice seemed to go against his own actions during the Obama administration. When then-President Barack Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland to the U.S.
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