President Donald Trump has vowed to push ahead with a Supreme Court nomination “without delay” following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday night.
The US president tweeted on Saturday that he considered it an “obligation” to put forward a nominee.
“We were put in this position of power and importance to make decisions for the people who so proudly elected us, the most important of which has long been considered to be the selection of United States Supreme Court Justices. We have this obligation, without delay!” Trump tweeted.
.@GOP We were put in this position of power and importance to make decisions for the people who so proudly elected us, the most important of which has long been considered to be the selection of United States Supreme Court Justices. We have this obligation, without delay!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 19, 2020
His tweet came hours after Ginsburg’s death of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer. Ginsburg was famous for her long and successful legal career during which she championed for gender equality and women’s rights.
