Advance Australia Director Liz Storer says US President Donald Trump should fill the seat left vacant by the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the upcoming presidential election, which she believes he will certainly do.
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg died over the weekend aged 87 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. President Donald Trump praised the progressive icon upon hearing the news of her death after a campaign rally. The vacant seat is set to become a massive political battle, as the President has already indicated he intends to nominate a replacement merely six weeks before the election.
If President Trump successfully replaced Justice Ginsburg, it would entrench a 6-3 conservative majority. “I say fill the seat, and I have no doubt that’s exactly what he’s going to do," Ms Storer told Sky News host Paul Murray “If for no other reason than, as we know, this election is going to be highly contested no matter who wins, no matter who loses, and we cannot have a supreme court split four-four and go for weeks, maybe months not knowing who’s the leader of the free world.
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