Donald Trump’s next nominee to the Supreme Court will get a Senate vote, following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.McConnell’s vow capped off a statement his office released just hours after Ginsburg’s death from pancreatic cancer.

It’s due to immediately kick off a bitter political fight over replacing the pioneering justice less than two months before November’s presidential election, and four months before the end of Trump’s first term.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court justice and pioneer for women, dies at 87 Multiple reports following her death also suggested Ginsburg addressed the issue during her final days.

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