Trump and the appointment to the US court. Pelosi: if necessary we will use impeachement

• 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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21 September 2020Using the impeachment to thwart the attempt by the Republicans to fill, before the presidential vote, the vacant seat in the Supreme Court since the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

This is the possibility raised by the Democratic Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, given that the appointment of such an important figure in the institutions as that of a member of the Supreme Court of the United States is frowned upon if made by an expiring president. 

"We have arrows in the quiver that I am not going to discuss right now, but it is certain that we have a great challenge ahead." "We must once again consider all the tools at our disposal."

Also giving force to the possibility of impeachment to the US president Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, who made it clear that Democrats should consider the impeachment of President Donald Trump and of the United States Attorney General, the Keeper, Bill Barr, to prevent Republicans from filling the vacancy of the Supreme Court left by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the popular jurist icon of feminism and civil rights dean of the Court who passed away on 18 September at the age of 87.

In two different television broadcasts, Pelosi and the pugnacious young Democratic deputy both answered a question about the possibility of a new impeachment of the president on the very delicate appointment.

"This president has threatened not to even accept the election results," insisted the Speaker.

"Our main goal will be to protect the integrity of the elections just as we protect people from the coronavirus."

Immediately after the disappearance of Ginsburg, President Trump declared that he did not want to leave the post left by the elderly Jewish jurist uncovered for too long and that he already had in mind "a woman in replacement", namely the 48-year-old Coney Barret, a fundamentalist Catholic and fervent anti -abortionist.

"I believe there has certainly been a huge amount of violations of the law by the Trump administration. I believe Attorney General Barr is unsuitable for the position and has had a number of potentially anti-law behaviors," he said. Ocasio-Cortez.

"Having said that, these are procedures and decisions that largely touch the Democratic leadership of the House. But I believe that we must also consider, once again, all the tools at our disposal and that all these options must be considered and made available. on the table".