Biden to speak on Supreme Court vacancy as Ginsburg death shakes up presidential race
Former Vice President Joe Biden is set to speak in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Sunday and address the vacancy created on the U.S. Supreme Court following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an event that sent shockwaves through the political world and recast an already uncertain presidential race.
After Ginsburg's death on Friday, the Democratic presidential nominee, who was on a plane traveling back to Delaware after a day of campaigning in Minnesota when the news broke, made clear his position that a replacement for the longtime justice should not be confirmed before November's election.
"There is no doubt, let me be clear, that the voters should pick the president, and the president should pick the Justice for the Senate to consider," Biden told reporters at an airport in New Castle, Delaware, on Friday evening.
"This was the position of -- the Republican senate took in 2016 when there were almost 10 months to go before the election. That's the position the United States Senate must take today," Biden added, referring to the Republican-led Senate's blocking of President Barack Obama's pick for the nation's highest court in 2016 following the death of conservative juror Antonin Scalia.
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