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Trump: I Would ‘Absolutely’ Fill Supreme Court Vacancy This Year

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would fill a Supreme Court vacancy should one arise this year.

“Absolutely, I’d do it,” Trump told radio host Hugh Hewitt. “I would move quickly. Why not? I mean, they would. The Democrats would if they were in this position.”

Speculation over the possibility of a vacancy resurfaced this month after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 87, announced that her cancer had returned and she had undergone treatment. The Democrat-appointed justice was also hospitalized for what was described as a “minimally invasive nonsurgical procedure” to revise a bile duct stent.

“Justice Ginsburg was admitted to The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland early this morning for treatment of a possible infection,” the Supreme Court said in a statement. […]

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