‘It will be a woman’: Trump wastes no time to replace Ginsburg on US Supreme Court
- President Donald Trump promised to put forth a female nominee in the coming week
- Republican defectors in Senate could scuttle Trump’s pick from joining the court
US President Donald Trump vowed to quickly nominate a successor, likely a woman, to replace late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, only a day after the death of the liberal stalwart.
The president’s desire “to move quickly” on the process despite Democrats’ vehement opposition, is likely to dominate the campaigns – alongside other hot-button issues like the coronavirus and America’s ongoing racial reckoning – ahead of the November 3 presidential election.
“I think it’s going to move quickly actually,” Trump told reporters outside the White House on Saturday, adding that he thought his choice would be made sometime this week.
Ginsburg’s death, coming just weeks before the election, offers Republicans a chance to lock in a decades-long conservative majority on the court, where justices are appointed for life.
The stakes are high as the decision could affect such life-and-death issues as abortion, health care, gun control and gay rights.