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Obama calls for Senate to honor Ginsburg’s

“instructions,” delay naming a successor
By CK Heltzel - September 19, 2020

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In a statement posted to his Medium page, former President Obama is calling for the Senate to honor
Ginsburg’s “instructions” and delay naming a successor as a matter of “everyday fairness” and
“consistency.”

Days before her death, Justice Ginsburg reportedly told her granddaughter, Clara Spera “My most
fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.”

Obama called Ginsburg a “warrior for gender equality” as well as a “a relentless litigator” and writes ”
Justice Ginsburg helped us see that discrimination on the basis of sex isn’t about an abstract ideal of
equality; that it doesn’t only harm women; that it has real consequences for all of us.”

After paying tribute to Ginsburg’s career, Obama calls for the Senate to delay filling her seat, based
on the principles of “everyday fairness” and “consistency,” pointing to Republicans refusing to
consider Merrick Garland during the last year of his term.

Obama writes “Four and a half years ago, when Republicans refused to hold a hearing or an up-or-
down vote on Merrick Garland, they invented the principle that the Senate shouldn’t fill an open seat
on the Supreme Court before a new president was sworn in.”

In a passage highlighted in blue, Obama continues “A basic principle of the law — and of everyday
fairness — is that we apply rules with consistency, and not based on what’s convenient or
advantageous in the moment.”

Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell stated Friday, a Trump nominee for Ginsburg’s replacement
will be brought to a Senate vote.

McConnell also explains what he considers a difference between the scenario of Merrick Garland and
the current one, writing “In the last midterm election between Justice Scalia’s death in 2016,
Americans elected a Republican Senate majority because we pledged to check and balance the last
days of a lame-duck president’s second term. We kept our promise. Since the 1880s, no Senate has
confirmed an opposite-party president’s Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year.”

The Senate Majority leader then explains “Americans reelected our majority in 2016 and expanded it
in 2018 because we pledged to work with President Trump and support his agenda, particularly his
outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary. Once again, we will keep our promise.”

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