Mitch McConnell says Trump Supreme Court nominee will receive vote by full Senate
WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said in a statement Friday that a Supreme Court nominee by President Donald Trump will receive a vote on the floor of the Senate following news of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing.Democratic nominee Joe Biden disagreed in a statement, declaring that "voters should pick the president and the president should pick the justice to consider.”“This was the position that the Republican Senate took in 2016, when there were nearly nine months before the election.
That is the position the United States Senate must take now, when the election is less than two months away,” the statement read in part.Ginsburg died Friday of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer, according to the.
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