The former Democratic presidential candidate criticized that the president is using “partisan power” to appoint a new magistrate on the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy left by Ruth Bader Gingsburg upon her death, which occurred last Friday.
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“Judge Ginsburg had such reverence for the court, for the law and our constitution, that when she dictated her statement to her granddaughter she was not speaking personally and certainly not as a partisan person,” Clinton said in an interview with Bloomberg.
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After Gingsburg’s death, National Public Radio, NPR, released a “will” from the magistrate, saying it was confident that her post would not be reassigned until after the November elections.
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“She was offering her measured opinion that it would be in the interest of our country, and most certainly in the interest of the court, that so close to an election the election is allowed to advance and that whoever is elected is able to choose the new magistrate. Clinton said.
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Although there is no legal impediment for a president to appoint a Supreme Court justice in an election year, there is precedent in 2016, when Republicans blocked Barack Obama’s candidate, Merrick Garland, on the grounds that they had to wait. the results of the elections to give voters a “voice”.
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