Senate to vote on Trump nominee for Ginsburg replacement

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the chamber will vote on Donald Trump’s nominee for a replacement for the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Jacquelyn Martin)

US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the Senate will vote on President Donald Trump’s choice to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, despite this being an election year.

The Republican Senate leader issued a statement on Friday night, some 90 minutes after the Supreme Court announced the liberal justice’s death from complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer.