onald Trump and Mitch McConnell are moving ahead full-throttle with their intention to put a sixth conservatice just on the Supreme Court before Election day, cognisant of and bowing to a number of political realities and a system that gives them few incentives to delay.
The president started the first full workday since Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away on Friday by letting Senate Republicans know he wants them to close ranks quickly behind his desire, fully embraced by Mr McConnell, that the chamber take up his coming nominee and vote to place them on the high court before 3 November.
“We were put into this position by voters,” Mr Trump said as Republicans contend voters handed them the White House and Senate in 2016, even expanding that upper chamber majority two years later. On Sunday, several McConnell allies hit the political talk show circuit to argue they and the president have a “constitutional duty” to nominate, vet and confirm a justice to restore the court to its nine-juge dais as soon as possible.
