Trump wants to replace Ginsburg immediately: "It will be a woman"

• Farewell to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court judge, liberal icon, champion of women's rights

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September 20, 2020Ruth Bader Ginsburg's succession nomination will be made next week and it will be a woman.

Donald Trump said this during a rally, underlining that one of the tasks of a president is to appoint the justices of the Supreme Court.

"The president is expected to fill the void in the Supreme Court. And that's what we will do," he said, greeted with an ovation.

"I like women much more than men".

"And I'll put one on the Supreme Court next week," he said in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

"She will be a woman, a very talented and brilliant woman," he added.

"Replace" Ruth BaderGinsburg, "fill that seat", 'fill that seat'.

It is the choir sung by Trump supporters at a rally in North Carolina.

"Let's make a shirt out of it. It's a good idea," says Trump.

"That's what we will do, we will replace it", adds the president, who considers the replacement of Ginsburg a "moral obligation".

Judge Amy Coney Barrett would be on pole.

The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 45 days of the elections on 3 November thus inflames an already fiery electoral campaign.

An America split in half ahead of the vote brings compact homage to 'Notorious RBG' for its integrity.

In New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo has already announced that he will have a statue erected in her memory in

, where she was born.

While today in

the citizens gathered to remember it and protest against Trump's decision.

The

becomes a pilgrimage destination for thousands of Americans who want to pay their homage to the champion of women, from Hollywood to Silicon Valley Ginsburg is remembered and praised.

The stakes are very high: it is the future for the next decades of the greatest American institution, the one that has the last word on the most controversial issues, from abortion to Obama care, passing through immigration.

And that it could be called upon to pronounce itself on the outcome of the 2020 elections, as it was called to do in 2000 in the clash between George W. Bush and Al Gore.

The leader of the Republicans in the Senate Mitch McConnell in fact immediately begins to weave his web.

He remembers and praises her in a long statement which, in the last two lines, reads: the person nominated to the Supreme Court by Trump "will be voted by the Senate".

Words that betray Ginsburg's latest wish - 'I hope not to be replaced until a new president takes office' - and which for the Democrats is a declaration of war.   

"There is no question that voters must choose the president and the president must choose the judge in the Supreme Court," says a shocked Joe Biden.

This is echoed by former President Obama, recalling how "four and a half years ago" the Republicans "invented the principle that the Senate could not fill the vacant seat on the Supreme Court before the swearing in of a new president".

But Trump seems to want to proceed anyway.