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Moving on a Supreme Nominee
A full Court of nine Justices could settle election disputes.
Journal Editorial Report: Who benefits from a fight over Ginsburg's successor? Images: AFP via Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly
By The Editorial Board
Sept. 21, 2020 7:03 pm ET
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Republicans are moving with dispatch to nominate and vote on a successor to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, perhaps before the Nov. 3 election. This is within their constitutional authority, and it also makes the most sense for the courts and any post-election controversy.
Lamar Alexander, a senior member of the Senate GOP conference, put the argument as succinctly as anyone on Sunday:
“No one should be surprised that a Republican Senate majority would vote on a Republican President’s Supreme Court nomination, even during a presidential election year. The Constitution gives senators the power to do it. The voters who elected them expect it. Going back to George Washington, the Senate has confirmed many nominees to the Supreme Court during a presidential election year. It has refused to confirm several when the President and Senate majority were of different parties. Senator [Mitch] McConnell is only doing what Democrat leaders have said they would do if the shoe were on the other foot.”
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