2020 strikes again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday due to complications from cancer. Before passing, she shared her final wish: \u201cMy most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ginsburg was and will always be remembered as\na gender equality champion, and it will be extremely hard to replace her on the\nSupreme Court. Who should replace someone like her and what will the\nconsequences be of a new justice? That is the question that is now one of the\nmost heated political topics leading up to the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most Republicans want to move quickly to fill the opening. They want President Donald Trump to nominate someone and then the Republican-controlled Senate to confirm that person. Democrats want to wait until the election for the president to nominate. Although engaging in this process before the election is the Republicans\u2019 constitutional and legal right, the smell of hypocrisy is overwhelming. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2016, Senate Republicans blocked President Barack Obama\u2019s choice to replace Antonin Scalia because they said it was an election year and the people should decide through their vote in a new president. At the time, there were 11 months until the election. I do not have enough space in my article to inform you of how many times a Republican said in 2016 that there should not be a Supreme Court nomination process during an election year, but I want to highlight what Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI want you to use my words against me. If there\u2019s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say, Lindsey Graham said let\u2019s let the next president, whoever it might be, make the nomination,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Can you guess what he said just recently? It is shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI am dead set on confirming President Trump\u2019s nominee.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are 43 days left until the election. What is the difference between 11 months and 43 days? Nothing. The Republicans have truly set a new low with this. The party with core values of tradition, precedent and honesty seems to be lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thankfully, two Republicans have already said no<\/em> to moving forward. Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski have vowed to not vote on a nominee until after we decide the next president and we should urge all senators to wait until after the election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If the Republicans are confident in their\nability to win on Nov. 3, then we should wait until after then to move forward\nwith a nominee. There is too much at stake to allow President Trump and the\nRepublicans to give America a going away present of an extremely conservative Supreme\nCourt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Let us honor Ginsburg\u2019s last wish and the idea\nthat we, the people, should decide on Nov. 3 who should pick the next Supreme\nCourt Justice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If Donald Trump wins, then we should respect\nhis pick. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If Joe Biden wins, then we should respect his\npick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bradley\nDeMers is senior studying political science at FHSU. <\/em>He\nis a former Student Government Association president and has worked for\npoliticians in both main political parties.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2020 strikes again. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday due to complications from cancer. Before passing, she shared her final wish: \u201cMy most… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12323,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life","category-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/US-NEWS-GINSBURG-OBIT-9-TB.jpg?fit=3000%2C2000&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56403,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56399\/revisions\/56403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}