Amy Coney Barrett, one of Trump’s frontrunners for replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg, spoke with CBSN in February 2016 after Antonin Scalia’s death.
She cautioned about replacing Scalia in an election year with “someone who could dramatically flip the balance of power on the court."
She cautioned about replacing Scalia in an election year with “someone who could dramatically flip the balance of power on the court."
“It shouldn’t be a surprise that the Senate is willing to push a president’s nominees through in an election year when they share the same political affiliation,” she added
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“The president has the power to nominate and the Senate has the power to act or not, and I don’t think either one of them can claim that there’s a rule governing one way or the other,” Barrett said
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