The fate of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s successor rests with a handful of Senate Republicans
President Trump and Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said they have every intent of filling the vacancy left by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg quickly. They are steamrolling past the cries of hypocrisy from Democrats who say the move flouts a standard set by Republicans themselves four years ago when they refused to even take up President Obama’s nominee for an election-year Supreme Court vacancy, declaring that the electorate should weigh in first.
But the views of Republican senators like Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska could be key in determining whether McConnell and Trump will be successful.
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