Supreme Court: Tom Cotton say Republicans have ‘constitutional duty’ to move on Trump nominee and doesn’t rule out pre-election vote

Senate Republicans will not “cut corners” in considering Donald Trump’s nominee to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, an ally of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday as he did not rule out a vote before Election Day.

“We will move forward without delay,” Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas told “Fox News Sunday,” adding: “There will be a vote.”

“We’re not going to rush or cut corners. … We will move forward without delay in a deliberate fashion. We will process the president’s nominee, and I believe we will confirm that nominee,” Mr Cotton said.

When pressed several times, Mr Cotton did not guarantee a vote before 3 November, but he did note there have been times in US history when a Supreme Court confirmation process took fewer than the 44 days remaining before Election Day.

Mr McConnell is under pressure to follow the path he set in 2016, when he for 10 months blocked then-President Barack Obama’s final high court nominee, federal Judge Merrick Garland, arguing the people were about to pick a new president and Senate. But four years later, the Kentucky Republican is vowing to hold a vote on Mr Trump’s nominee as his term expires in late January.

Mr Cotton argued on Sunday morning that things are different this time because in 2016, there was a GOP-run Senate elected as a “check” on Mr Obama. This time, voters elected a Republican president while continuing a GOP majority in the Senate.

“There could not have been a clearer mandate,” he said, noting voters “expanded our majority.”

“We have a clear mandate to perform our constitutional duty,” he said. “That’s what we did back in 2016, as well.”

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