Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the trailblazing feminist icon, died at 87-years-old on Friday night. In a New York minute, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell pushed for her to be quickly replaced. And, of course, McConnell said that even though in the past he has stated five different times that a Supreme Court Justice shouldn’t be confirmed during an election year.
While Americans are reeling from RBG’s death, Donald Trump took to his Twitter account to say that her replacement should take place “without delay.” Trump is trying to rally up his base just forty-five days ahead of the election. After all, Trump’s only achievement really is with his party confirming judges, with some of them being wholly unqualified. Vice-President Mike Pence in 2018 cast the first-ever tiebreaking vote on a judicial nominee. That had never happened before.
.@GOP We were put in this position of power and importance to make decisions for the people who so proudly elected us, the most important of which has long been considered to be the selection of United States Supreme Court Justices. We have this obligation, without delay!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 19, 2020
Well, there’s always this gem:
LINDSEY GRAHAM on March 10, 2016:
“I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination.” pic.twitter.com/DYXou0KEI8
— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) September 19, 2020
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Twitter users pounced:
Let me remind you… pic.twitter.com/RtcLUXYY3c
— Jay Lionel (@JayLionel7) September 19, 2020
Shocked that @realDonaldTrump is willing to sink his chances of being re-elected in order to put another conservative on the Supreme Court. He’ll have to live the rest of his life knowing that he couldn’t accomplish what President Obama did, be elected to serve a second term.
— Marie Connor (@thistallawkgirl) September 19, 2020
HONOR the Final Wishes of #RBG.
— The Resistor Sister ♥️🇺🇸🦅🙏🏻 (@the_resistor) September 19, 2020
A new record reached of Dem donations. pic.twitter.com/jiPQPHKB6z
— whamish2.0 (@wisconsinvotes1) September 19, 2020
WANTED: At Least 4 GOP Senators with a LOVE of Country 🇺🇸⚖️ Over Party. PATRIOTS ONLY Need Apply. Needs the COURAGE to tell #MoscowMitch “NO”.
— The Resistor Sister ♥️🇺🇸🦅🙏🏻 (@the_resistor) September 19, 2020
The one term president* says what?
— Angela Belcamino (@AngelaBelcamino) September 19, 2020
Fun Fact: If Trump nominates a Supreme Court Justice to replace Ruth, Republicans will have nominated 6 of the 9 Supreme Court justices, despite winning the popular vote just ONCE in 28 years.
Abolish the EC.
— Angela Belcamino (@AngelaBelcamino) September 19, 2020
Democratic nominee Joe Biden weighed in.
Let me be clear: The voters should pick a President, and that President should select a successor to Justice Ginsburg.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 19, 2020
Republicans will go down in history as Donald Trump’s Squeaky Fromme over their complicity in enabling a dangerous president.
Featured image via Gage Skidmore/Flickr, under Creative Commons license 2.0
