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David Axelrod On RBG Health Scare: Empty SCOTUS Seat Could ‘Tear This Country Apart’

Paul Bois
David Axelrod On RBG Health Scare: Empty SCOTUS Seat Could ‘Tear This Country Apart’
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Former Obama adviser David Axelrod is worried that another empty Supreme Court seat in the age of President Trump could “tear the country apart.” His prediction came shortly after news broke that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had recently completed radiation treatment for cancer on her pancreas.

“If there is a SCOTUS vacancy next year and @senatemajldr carries through on his extraordinary promise to fill it-despite his own previous precedent in blocking Garland — it will tear this country apart,” Axelrod tweeted on Friday.

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