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Utah GOP Sen. Mitt Romney announced Tuesday he supports a Senate vote on President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee — possibly before the November election. ABC News: Top Stories
She could have had President Obama nominate her successor. But she didn’t get to the Supreme Court by letting other people tell her what she could do. — NYT: Top Stories
Billionaire Mike Bloomberg is helping Florida felons pay their debts so they can vote in the presidential election. — ABC News: Top Stories
Since the beginning of the year, de Blasio has been working to try and find a solution to the $9 billion coronavirus-related revenue loss facing the nation’s biggest city. He has repeatedly stressed that he is doing so with little help from the
Many people wonder how Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and my father, the late Justice Antonin Scalia, managed to be such good friends despite holding such different ideological views. — FOX News: Christopher Scalia
The late Justice grew up in Midwood neighborhood, Brooklyn, N.Y.C., formed by its schools, library and synagogue. She was remembered across the borough and city. — NYT: Troy Closson
Senate Judiciary Committee member Cory Booker, D-N.J., warned Republicans would harm the Supreme Court’s legitimacy by forcing through a nominee. — FOX News: Tyler Olson
In emotional displays, thousands honored Justice Ginsburg and vowed to protect her legacy. President Trump said the nominee “will be a woman,” and pressed to fill the seat “without delay.” — NYT