President Trump this weekend said he would quickly name a nominee to fill the seat of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, adding that he and the Senate have a “moral duty to fulfill the promises they made to the voters.”
“We’re going to fill the seat,” Trump said at a rally in North Carolina. “… We have plenty of time.”
On Monday, Trump said the nominee likely would be announced Friday or Saturday. He is considering five candidates, he said. It will be a woman, he added.
It would be the third vacancy he has filled.
The vacancy gives Trump an historic opportunity: The last president to fill more than two vacancies on the Supreme Court was Ronald Reagan, who placed three justices on the court in the span of two terms. Richard Nixon was the last president to fill more than two seats on the court in only one term. (Nixon, in his first term, filled four vacancies.) Presidents George W. Bush, Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Obama each filled two vacancies.
More significantly, the vacancy gives Trump a chance to shape the court’s ideology by replacing two supporters of Roe v. Wade with new justices. He previously replaced swing vote Anthony Kennedy – who had voted to uphold Roe – with Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Ginsburg was a champion of liberal causes, having served as an attorney for the ACLU before being named to the D.C. Court of Appeals…
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