President Donald Trump said Saturday he will move quickly to fill the new opening in the Supreme Court created by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, urging the Republican Party to confirm an eventual nominee 'without delay.'
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden also served notice he will make the Supreme Court a campaign issue. He said the winner of the Nov. 3 election should select the person to replace Ginsburg, citing a precedent the Republicans set during the 2016 election, after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
Ginsburg, an icon who made her name as a lawyer who won a string of women's rights cases during the 1970s, will likely be replaced by a woman, officials said.Judge Joan Larsen, a Michigan-based jurist and former Scalia clerk who sits on 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals; Democrats charged Trump and the Republicans with hypocrisy. Four years ago, they said, the GOP worked to block the nomination of Merrick Garland, the jurist President Barack Obama nominated to replace the deceased Scalia.
"While I am not certain that either side will gain an electoral advantage, I do believe that turnout will increase above what we already believed would be the highest turnout election in the modern era," said Brown, director of the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University.Trump and aides have said they believe the Supreme Court issue boosted their campaign in 2016 and helped him defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton.
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