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ariesgem

(1,634 posts)
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 10:44 PM Sep 2020

Alaska Senator Murkowski said she would not vote for a justice ahead of election

Shortly before the announcement that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died Friday, Sen. Lisa Murkowski said in an interview that if she was presented with a vacancy on the court, she would not vote to confirm a nominee before the election.

Ginsburg died in her home in Washington D.C. at the age of 87 of complications from pancreatic cancer.

“I would not vote to confirm a Supreme Court nominee. We are 50 some days away from an election,” she said.

Murkowski said her reasoning is based on the same reasoning that held up the confirmation of former President Barack Obama’s final nominee to the Supreme Court.

https://www.alaskapublic.org/2020/09/18/alaska-senator-murkowski-said-friday-she-would-not-vote-for-a-justice-ahead-of-election/

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Alaska Senator Murkowski said she would not vote for a justice ahead of election (Original Post) ariesgem Sep 2020 OP
"That was then, this is now..." regnaD kciN Sep 2020 #1
Uh huh. Codeine Sep 2020 #2
Romney, grassley Collins and Graham have said no. We'll see Thekaspervote Sep 2020 #3
Romney's comm director says the report is false. TwilightZone Sep 2020 #7
Yup but she'd gladly do it immediately after the election In It to Win It Sep 2020 #4
Did she say anything about voting AFTER the election in the lame duck session? DonaldsRump Sep 2020 #5
Assume every republican who ways something like this hellacia Sep 2020 #6
***Ahead*** of the election. What about after? JHB Sep 2020 #8

TwilightZone

(25,342 posts)
7. Romney's comm director says the report is false.
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 11:01 PM
Sep 2020

And says that Romney hasn't said anything or made a decision.

DonaldsRump

(7,715 posts)
5. Did she say anything about voting AFTER the election in the lame duck session?
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 10:49 PM
Sep 2020

Remember that the Rs impeached President Clinton in December 1998 AFTER losing badly in the mid-terms that year.

Anything is possible with these bootlickers.

hellacia

(13 posts)
6. Assume every republican who ways something like this
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 10:49 PM
Sep 2020

is lying. How long will it take for people to realize that there are no saviors, no powerful people who will suddenly get a conscience. Saving ourselves is on us alone.

JHB

(37,128 posts)
8. ***Ahead*** of the election. What about after?
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 11:05 PM
Sep 2020

Specifically, after a Trump loss.

Will she leave it to the next president? Or vote for a Trump-McConnell rush job?

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