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Four of the nine justices on the U.S. Supreme Court have been nominated by presidents (George W. Bush and Donald J. Trump) who lost the popular vote for their first terms, but won via the Electoral College. There will be five, more than half the court, if the Senate votes to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Trump’s choice, which would be his third nominee. 

“To jam this nominee through the Senate is just a raw exercise in political power,” Biden said Sunday. 

The certain hard-right conservative majority on the Supreme Court that surely would result with the nomination of someone like Amy Coney Barrett or Barbara Lagos would be chosen by a minority of voters; both of President Trump and of the 53-member majority from predominantly low-population states. Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Susan Collins (Maine) have said they will not vote for Trump’s nominee before the election, but it is time for two more Republicans to join them. 

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