Mitch McConnell, the Republican US Senate majority leader, said Donald Trump’s supreme court nominee would see a vote ‘this year’ as he clashed with the Democratic minority leader, Chuck Schumer.
The supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday, prompting Trump and McConnell to announced their intention to fill her seat as quickly as possible.
Schumer said McConnell’s kind words on Ginsburg would be ‘meaningless’ if he replaced her despite her wish that the process of filling her seat not begin ‘until a new president is installed’
- Senate majority leader McConnell says Trump supreme court pick to get vote ‘this year’ – live
Source: US Politics - theguardian.com
