‘I think Justice Ginsburg would easily see through the legal sophistry,’ Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said of Republican Ted Cruz’s objection.
In a sign of the cutthroat partisan gamesmanship gripping the senate in the wake of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, the Senate failed on Tuesday to pass a resolution honoring Ginsburg after Sen. Ted Cruz objected to an addition made by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer .news conference in front of the U.S. Capitol September 22, 2020 in Washington, DC.
Cruz accused Schumer of trying to “turn a bipartisan resolution into a partisan resolution,” before arguing that statements like Ginsburg’s are “not the standard” because judges “do not appoint their successors.”Ginsburg made in support of President Obama nominating a successor to the late Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016, in which she noted, “The president is elected for four years not three years, so the power he has in year three continues into year four.
Rejecting Cruz’s request that he “delete his call that we leave this vacancy open,” Schumer blocked the resolution and shot back that Ginsburg would “easily see through the legal sophistry of the junior senator from Texas."
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