McConnell Vows Quick Vote on Trump Pick to Fill Ginsburg Seat
- Ginsburg’s death comes less than two months before election
- Schumer says he opposes filling election-year vacancy
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he would schedule a vote to confirm Donald Trump’s nominee to succeed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg after her death Friday, giving the president an opportunity to cement a rightward tilt of the Supreme Court for a generation.
With the election less than two months away, McConnell said the Senate would act to fill the vacancy, even though he spent most of 2016 denying a confirmation hearing to President Barack Obama’s pick to fill a vacancy on the high court.