Increasingly confident Senate Republicans are making plans to act on President Trump's soon-to-be-named choice to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Sen. Mitt Romney said he will consider voting for President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee this year,to confirm a successor to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Romney was one of the last Republican holdouts to announce whether he would consider voting for a nominee so close to the presidential election, after Republicans refused for most of 2016 to consider President Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, after the death of Antonin Scalia.and Susan Collins of Maine — have said they would not consider supporting a nominee before election day, Nov. 3.
Romney said Tuesday that he thinks it is fair to consider a nominee now because the White House and Senate are controlled by the same political party, which was not the case in 2016.“The historical precedent of election year nominations is that the Senate generally does not confirm an opposing party’s nominee but does confirm a nominee of its own,” Romney said in a statement. “Accordingly, I intend to follow the Constitution and precedent in considering the president’s nominee.
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