Donald Trump's push to cement a conservative majority on the US Supreme Court has received a boost as a long-time rival, Republican Senator Mitt Romney, said the chamber should vote on a replacement for liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
US President Donald Trump's push to cement a conservative majority on the Supreme Court has received a boost as a long-time rival, Republican Senator Mitt Romney, said the chamber should vote on a replacement for liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Romney's decision left Democrats with few hopes of blocking Senate confirmation of the Republican President's third appointment to the nine-member high court, giving it a 6-3 conservative majority. Trump has said he plans to announce his nominee by Saturday.Credit:Romney, the party's 2012 presidential nominee, is one of the few Republicans in Congress willing to criticise Trump, and he even voted to remove him from office in the February impeachment trial.
But he dismissed Democratic arguments that the Senate should wait until after voters decide whether to re-elect Trump or chose his Democratic challenger Joe Biden in the November 3 presidential election."I intend to follow the Constitution and precedent in considering the President's nominee," he said on Tuesday local time .
Republicans hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate, and they can afford few defections after two of their members, Alaska's Lisa Murkowski and Maine's Susan Collins, said the Senate should not consider a nominee this year. Collins faces a strong challenge from a Democrat aiming to oust her in the November election, when control of the Senate is at stake along with the White House race.
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