Thread by @CBSNews, Amy Coney Barrett, one of Trump’s frontrunners for replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg, [...]

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."

“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

Watch the full interview here: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/fight-over-vacant-scotus-scalia-seat-gets-ugly/

Fight over vacant SCOTUS Scalia seat gets ugly

The fight in Washington for late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's replacement is just getting started. President Obama may pick a nomination as early as next week, but Republicans vow to block...

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/fight-over-vacant-scotus-scalia-seat-gets-ugly/

“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

Full interview: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/fight-over-vacant-scotus-scalia-seat-gets-ugly/

Fight over vacant SCOTUS Scalia seat gets ugly

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/fight-over-vacant-scotus-scalia-seat-gets-ugly/

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