The Alaska senator joins Maine Sen. Susan Collins, who said replacing Ginsburg should be the decision of the election winner — Trump or Democrat Joe Biden.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the Senate will vote on President Trump’s pick to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, even though it’s an election year.
Ginsburg’s death Friday at age 87 has injected new ferocity into the election-year battle for the presidency and control of Congress in a nation already struggling with the coronavirus pandemic, economic collapse and racial tension. The talk on the Sunday news shows gave a glimpse of the power tug over the timing of any vote to fill Ginsberg’s seat 44 days from the election.Trump says he is obligated to act as soon as possible and has at least two women in mind for the seat.
Democrats urged the GOP Senate majority to heed its own advice against filling the court’s lifetime slots so close to elections.Pelosi was asked whether she would be open to the House undertaking impeachment proceedings against Trump or Atty. Gen. William Barr as a way of trying to stall the confirmation process. She did not rule out doing so.“We have our options. We have arrows in our quiver that I’m not about to discuss right now,” she said.
The next justice, Pelosi said, would help determine the survival of the Affordable Care Act. The court is scheduled to hear a lawsuit involving Obamacare on Nov. 10 that could affect the law’s protection of people with preexisting conditions. “Those are the people the president wants to crush when he says he wants to replace the justice in this short period of time,” Pelosi said.
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