Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate will vote on President Trump’s nominee to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Friday.
“President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate,” McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said in a lengthy statement praising Ginsburg as “thoroughly dedicated to the legal profession.”
McConnell referred back to his decision to punt on a nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in the final year of President Barack Obama’s second term.
“Since the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed an opposite-party president’s Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year,” McConnell said.
Republicans control 53 votes and need 51 to confirm a nominee. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, an Alaska Republican, said earlier in the day on Friday that she’ll oppose a new nominee until the next president is sworn into office.
Trump announced a list of potential nominees on Sept. 9, but it remains unclear when he will nominate someone to the high court.
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