Democratic White House candidate Joe Biden on Saturday called on the U.S. Senate not to vote on Conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s appointment to the Supreme Court ahead of the November 3 presidential election.
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“The Senate should not vote on this vacancy” created by the death of progressive judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg “until the Americans have chosen their next president and their next Congress,” he said in a communicated a few minutes after the announcement of the appointment by Donald Trump.
The Republican President predicted that the Senate, with a Republican majority, would “quickly” confirm this choice. According to American media, the hearings are due to start on October 12 for a vote before the presidential election.
Joe Biden noted that Judge Barrett had marked his “disagreement with the decision of the Supreme Court in favor of maintaining” Obamacare, the health insurance law passed when he himself was vice-president.
“President Trump has been trying for four years to throw out ‘Obamacare, but” on two occasions the Supreme Court has validated the law saying it was constitutional, “said the Democrat.
“But even now, in the midst of a global pandemic, the Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to strike down the entire law,” he lamented.