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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti decried the decision of a grand jury in Kentucky not to indict police officers for the death of Breonna Taylor (though one was indicted for wanton endangerment).

Supreme Court Justices do not choose their replacements, noted Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), author of The Mind of a Conservative Woman: Seeking the Best for Family and Country, remarking on the vacancy created by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) claimed Tuesday that Republicans want to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg because they want to strike down Obamacare, which is currently facing a challenge that is before the Supreme Court.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) is no longer ruling out a vote on President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, according to a report.

Democrats are said to fear that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is not up for the task of leading her party’s effort to stop Senate Republicans from confirming the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s replacement on the Supreme Court. 

Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle,” host Laura Ingraham opened her show decrying the “anti-Christian and anti-Catholic bigotry” on display from the Democratic Party, especially as Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a Catholic, is the front-runner to be appointed by President Donald Trump to fill the vacancy left by Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) vowed that Senate Democrats “will use every tool in the toolkit” to try to delay Republicans from filling Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat. Schumer

Supporters chanted “Fill that Seat!” as the president spoke about his plan to fill the seat left vacant after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.  

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) stated that he thinks Judge Amy Coney Barrett “will and should be” nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Donald Trump

“He was very good today, I have to tell you, he was good,” Trump said. “Now I’m happy. Thank you Mitt. Thank you.”

Tuesday, during an interview that aired on Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” former House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) made the case President Donald Trump, and the U.S. Senate should proceed to fill the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy left by Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Tuesday weighed in on the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dying wish for the next president to select her replacement.

The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued in 2016 that the United States Senate should respect that a president’s constitutional power is for “four years, not three years,” when considering Supreme Court appointments. 

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was heckled during a Tuesday speech addressing a plan by Senate Republican to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. 

A USA Today column focused on the vacancy Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death created on Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) suggests the Second Amendment is now front and center.

Long-time leftist actress Jane Fonda and other Hollywood celebrities, including Ashley Judd and Amy Schumer, are joining forces with Democrat vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi for a “women’s voter mobilization” event.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) supports a Senate vote on President Trump’s forthcoming Supreme Court nominee, he announced on Tuesday.

Actress Jennifer Aniston is urging people to register to vote on Tuesday, which is National Voter Registration Day. “Let’s put out the dumpster fire that is 2020,” she wrote in an Instagram post.

Representative Doug Collins (R-GA), a candidate for U.S. Senate in Georgia, discussed introducing a constitutional amendment that would prevent efforts to pack the Supreme Court as a response to court confirmation Tuesday on FNC’s  “Fox & Friends.”

Monday on Fox News Channel’s ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson opened the show questioning the reasoning put forth by some Democrats to not proceed with the effort to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left behind by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Elizabeth Warren warned that Republican’s must not be allowed to “steal a second seat” on the Supreme Court in the process of replacing the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg in an interview with comedian and left-wing activist Billy Eichner.

During an interview with Green Bay’s WBAY on Monday, 2020 Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden declined to say whether he would add justices to the Supreme Court if President Donald Trump’s pick to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) stated that Senate Republicans have “the votes to confirm Justice Ginsburg’s replacement before the election.”

Fox News Channel’s Jeanine Pirro sees opposition to President Donald Trump’s decision to proceed with nominating a replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court from within the Republican caucus in the U.S. Senate as something that goes against the Constitution.

Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) is throwing his support behind President Donald Trump’s effort to fill the Supreme Court vacancy caused by Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing.

Fox News Channel network senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano said President Donald Trump was playing with “fire” by pushing a replacement for Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the November election.

Barrett, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, continues to be a front-runner on Trump’s shortlist for the Supreme Court.

CNN contributor Ana Navarro said Monday that by attempting to vote on President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee before the November election, both the president and Republican lawmakers were disrespecting Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dying wish not to be replaced until after the next presidential inauguration.

Informal precedent set by previous presidents supports President Donald Trump making a nomination to the Supreme Court following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, explained Carrie Severino, president of the Judicial Crisis Network, offering her remarks on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said the Senate “must honor” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s wish to be replaced after a new president is elected, despite demanding the Senate to “do its job” by holding confirmation hearings and voting on former President Barack Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, in 2016.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) wrote in a letter to committee Democrats on Monday that the committee would confirm their nominee if the “shoe were on the other foot.”

On Sunday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox News @ Night,” Senate GOP Conference Chair John Barrasso (R-WY) stated that Democrats will “change the rules. They will blow up the Senate” and expand the size of the Supreme Court,

A Rasmussen poll found 83 percent of GOP voters want Trump to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court following Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death.

Democrats would likely confirm a nominee to the Supreme Court in a week if they had the presidency and Senate, Hans von Spakovsky said.

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “MTP Daily,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) vowed that Senate Democrats “will use every procedural opportunity before us” to prevent Senate Republicans and President Donald Trump from filling Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat

Hollywood actress Ione Skye is urging people to pressure Republican senators to delay the vote on Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s successor until after the next presidential inauguration in 2021. The Say Anything star shared a video of herself calling Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) to demand that she refuse to approve any Supreme Court nominee.