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Trump: "I will present my candidates for the Supreme Court on Saturday" | Israel Today

2020-09-22T20:11:05.873Z


Report: Judge Amy Connie Barrett is the Leading Candidate to Replace Bader-Ginzburg • Appears: Romney Will Support Senate | United States


Report: Judge Amy Connie Barrett is the Leading Candidate to Replace Bader-Ginzburg • Appears: Following Mitt Romney's Support the move will be approved by the Senate

  • US President Donald Trump // Photo: AP

President Trump and Republicans yesterday took a big step toward securing a needed majority in the Senate to approve a replacement for Chief Justice Roth Baider Ginzburg who passed away on New Year's Eve.

 Senator Mitt Romney, one of the president's biggest rivals within the Republican Party and who many Democrats had hoped would oppose the appointment of a replacement before the November election, announced yesterday he would allow the process to proceed and thus essentially promised there would be no majority in the Senate to abstain.





"The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint and the Senate the power to advise and approve candidates for the Supreme Court," the senator said in a press release.

"Accordingly, I intend to act in accordance with the constitution and precedent and consider the appointment of the president. If the appointment reaches the Senate plenum, I intend to vote in accordance with the candidate's qualifications."

Republicans hold a Senate majority of 53 to 47, but after Republican senators Susan Collins and Lisa Markowski announced they would oppose advancing the nomination before the election, that majority was narrowed to one vote, and Democrats hoped Romney would tip the scales - a hope that vanished yesterday.





Romney rejected the claims of his Democratic colleagues, who are angry at the Republicans who four years ago prevented then-President Obama from bringing his candidate to the Supreme Court for a vote, claiming it was an election year.

"My liberal friends have become accustomed to the idea that for years there has been a liberal court, but it is not written in the stars," Romney insisted.

"It is appropriate that in a state that, if you will, is a center-right state, there will be a court that reflects that position." 

The question now is whether the vote will take place before the November 3 election or in the period between the election and the beginning of the new administration and the Senate.

One way or another, President Trump himself announced last night on Twitter that he intends to "announce my candidacy for the Supreme Court on Saturday in the White House."





CNN reported yesterday that Judge Amy Connie Barrett is emerging as Trump's leading candidate for the job.

Barrett, who serves as a federal appeals judge in a Chicago court, is a devout Catholic and mother of seven, who has served, among other things, as an assistant to the late Conservative Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia.

She is considered a favorite of the religious right because of her views on religion and the law, and for exactly the same reasons liberals fear that Barrett might rule against the right to abortion.

Source: israelhayom

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