When President Trump learned Friday night that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died, he told reporters she was an “amazing woman.” Later, in an official statement, he called her a “titan of the law.” And while Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., wrote in a statement that he would bring a vote for a new justice to the floor, Trump did not weigh in.
But in a tweet Saturday morning, Trump appeared to suggest that he wanted to put a new justice on the court before Election Day.
“@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,” he tweeted. “We have this obligation, without delay!”
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