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Biden In 2016: President Has ‘Constitutional Duty’ To Fill Vacant Supreme Court Seat

"... even a few months before a presidential election"

Joseph Curl
Biden In 2016: President Has ‘Constitutional Duty’ To Fill Vacant Supreme Court Seat
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If you’ve been following the media coverage of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, then you’ve heard a million times what Republicans like Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said in 2016.

After the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, both the Senate majority leader from Kentucky and the South Carolina senator said a replacement should not be seated until after the presidential election.

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