Almost immediately following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, long-serving U.S. Supreme Court justice best known for her influential decisions on cases concerning women's rights, Democrats and Republicans began fighting on whether or not President Trump is within his rights to nominate a new Supreme Court justice, turning a split court into a conservative-leaning majority.
Part of the concern from Democrats, Fox News stated in a blazing opinion piece, is that in a similar situation when there was a vacancy on the Supreme Court during Obama's last year as president, Republicans set a precedent that a judge could not be nominated in the last year of a presidency, but could only be determined by the next president. As such, the at the time, the GOP blocked Obama's nominee from being voted on a whole eight months before the election.
The Hill notes the lack of concern from GOP members over the charges of hypocrisy from Democrats. With a majority in the Senate, if they so choose to vote on Trump's nominee, who is rumored to have already been chosen, GOP members will almost certainly fill the seat. Party leaders believe this "rushed" vote to confirm will in fact give them an edge in the upcoming election, as after the controversial Justice Brett Kavanaugh decision, a number of seats were flipped to red in the midterm elections.
NBC noted that only two or three Republicans will likely vote against the nominee, probably ensuring Trump's nominee to be voted in.
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