“Go ahead … I want you to,” President Donald Trump said Monday at a rally in Ohio if a scenario arises in which Democrats begin a new process of impeachment to delay the potential confirmation of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s successor on the Supreme Court.
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While his supporters shouted “fill that chair”, the president claimed that he is “the only guy in the world who could be fired for trying to fill one,” Trump was quoted as saying. USA Today on a probable move that has not been confirmed by Democrats and that gained momentum with the death of Justice Ginsburg from complications with pancreatic cancer.
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When asked about it over the weekend, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said only, “We have our options … which I am not going to discuss at this time.”
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Ginsburg’s death has opened a political battle in what was already a highly polarized environment just weeks before the November 3 presidential election.
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Democrats say they must wait until there is an electoral result to make the decision and remember the Republican position of 2016, when the Senate refused to vote the nomination of then-President Barack Obama for Merrick Garland to occupy a seat in the highest court. .
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Republicans assure that there is time and that it is their right to fill the vacancy, and they excuse themselves saying that in 2016 there was a president of a party with a Senate with an opposing majority and that is why they blocked Garland’s vote.
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