Joe Biden has urged Senate Republicans not to vote on any candidate nominated to the Supreme Court as the November election approaches
US presidential hopeful Joe Biden urged Senate lawmakers on Sunday to not vote on filling the Supreme Court vacancy left by Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death until after the election in November.
Such an appointment by the president, if approved by the Senate, would cement a 6-3 conservative majority that could influence American law and life for decades. The former vice-president rejected the idea of releasing the names of potential nominees, saying that doing so, as Mr Trump did, could improperly influence those candidates' decisions in their current court roles as well as subject them to"unrelenting political attacks."
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