President Donald Trump says he will announce his US Supreme Court pick by the end of the week, moving quickly to fill the seat of liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg and cement a 6-3 conservative majority ahead of his November 3 re-election bid.
The Republican President said he was looking "very seriously" at five candidates and would put forward his nominee on Friday or Saturday after funeral services for Ginsburg, who died of complications from pancreatic cancer on Friday at the age of 87.Trump said the Republican-controlled Senate should hold a vote ahead of the election.
McConnell has time, as a new Congress will not be sworn in until January 3. Democrats are hoping to win control of the Senate in the election. Trump already has named two conservative justices to the high court, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
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