Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death: Trump appoints woman to fill Supreme Court seat – BBC News

U.S. President Donald Trump has said he will appoint a woman next week to replace Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, raising the political line over her successor. Ginsburg, 87, died on Friday, just weeks before the presidential election. Trump’s Democratic rival Joe Biden has stressed that his replacement’s decision should be waited for after the vote. The ideological balance of the nine-member tribunal is crucial in decisions on the most important issues in U.S. law. But President Trump has vowed to swear by Ginsburg’s heir “without delay,” a behavior that has angered Democrats, who fear Republicans will vote to block a decade-long Conservative majority in the country’s highest court. “I will present a candidate next week. She will be a woman,” Trump said during a campaign in Fayetteville, North Carolina on Saturday. “I think she should be a woman because I really like women a lot more than men.” #BBCOS #BBCOutsideSource Please subscribe HERE .

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