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Category: Politics
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Who is Amy Coney Barrett, the judge at the top of Trump’s list to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
Amy Coney Barrett tops President Trump’s list to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. The 48-year-old circuit court judge is a devout Catholic who is fervently anti-abortion in the mold of the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Her name was floated in 2018 to replace retired justice Anthony Kennedy.
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McConnell says Trump’s court pick will get Senate vote despite Ginsburg’s dying wish
The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sent shock waves through the country Friday night, igniting debate about the future of the high court.
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Is it too close to the election to confirm a Supreme Court nominee?
Since 1975, it’s taken about 71 days for a president’s nomination to be confirmed in a vote on the Senate floor.
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Ginsburg’s death expected to set off political feud over her replacement
The 87-year-old dictated a statement to her granddaughter in recent days saying, “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.”
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Graham — an institutionalist turned Trump loyalist — will play a central role in Supreme Court battle
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) will be at the center of what will likely be one of the most contentious confirmation battles in history, affording him an opportunity to demonstrate his loyalty to President Trump. But some Democrats say his position could help amplify the arguments against his reelection.
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Where polling stands as the Supreme Court vaults into the top tier of campaign issues
Recent polling shows Democrats were more likely than Republicans to say that the Supreme Court was an important factor in their 2020 vote.
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Why Mitch McConnell intends to confirm a new Supreme Court justice now, when he wouldn’t in 2016
In 2016, Mitch McConnell wouldn’t fill a Supreme Court opening. He confirmed he will this time with Trump as president.
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McConnell vows Trump’s Supreme Court nominee will get a Senate vote
The Senate leader, who blocked former president Barack Obama’s nominee for much of 2016, is pressing ahead within weeks of the Nov. 3 election.
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Ginsburg’s death jolts chaotic presidential race as both sides prepare for Supreme Court battle
Top Republicans signal push to vote on new justice nominated by Trump, while Biden and other Democrats say the decision should be delayed until after Inauguration Day.
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The GOP senators who will decide on Ginsburg’s vacancy
What Lindsey Graham, Chuck Grassley and others said when a 2020 Supreme Court vacancy was just hypothetical.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court justice and legal pioneer for gender equality, dies at 87
She rose to the top of her class at Columbia Law School in the 1950s, helped battle gender discrimination as an ACLU lawyer and, in 1993, became the second woman on the high court.