Sen. Lamar Alexander Backs Vote on Trump Supreme Court Nominee

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said he backs voting for President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee following Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death. He claimed Democrats “would do” the same thing “if the shoe were on the other foot.” “No one should be surprised that a Republican Senate majority would vote on a Republican President’s Supreme Court nomination, even during a presidential election year,” he told The Hill. “The Constitution gives senators the power to do it. The voters who elected them expect it.” Top Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), said that Trump should not confirm a Supreme Court justice before the election. Two Republican senators, Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), both said over the weekend that the nomination should be held until after the November election. “I did not support taking up a nomination eight months before the 2016 election to fill the …