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FOX 11's Kia Murray talks SCOTUS future, Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Joe Biden 1-on-1


FOX 11's Kia Murray speaks exclusively with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in Manitowoc Sept. 21, 2020. (WLUK image)
FOX 11's Kia Murray speaks exclusively with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in Manitowoc Sept. 21, 2020. (WLUK image)
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MANITOWOC (WLUK) -- Presidential candidate Joe Biden made his first appearance in Northeast Wisconsin Monday.

And in this exclusive 1-on-1 interview, U.S. Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg topped the conversation.

"We’re in the middle of an election, they should wait," Biden said.

That’s responding to President Trump’s plan to nominate a justice to fill Ginsburg’s seat.

When former president Barack Obama tried to do the same thing in 2016, Senate Republicans called for a pause before voting on a nominee.

"The republican majority in the senate advise president Obama to let the American people have a voice in deciding the direction of the supreme court through their votes in November," Sen. Ron Johnson said.

The 2016 election was about eight months away back then.

With the 2020 election just six weeks away, both sides have flipped.

The election is already underway. By the time they vote on this nominee somewhere between 30 and 40% of all the Americans going to vote will have voted. Early voting, you saw people in Virginia stand in line for over five hours first day of early voting," Biden said.

The open seat also renews the push to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

And the healthcare law has found its way on the Supreme Court's schedule.

Biden says if elected, he'd look at amending parts of the law.

"The likelihood and nobody knows, but the likelihood of the nominee that he's picking based on the pick that you're talking about are likely to take a very conservative view and say Obamacare is unconstitutional. And that's going to make, that's going to strip over a hundred million people with pre-existing conditions and any coverage they have. So what I would have to do is see the basis of that decision and know what constitutional argument they made to determine what I have to propose and pass in order to get it done. But I think we can do that," he said.

The Supreme Court is set to argue the Affordable Care Act just a week after the election.

With Ginsburg, justices appointed by Republican presidents held a slim lead over justices appointed by Democrats, a successful appointment by Trump widens that gap.


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