WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have tried to make it clear: Given the chance, they would push through a Supreme Court nominee should a vacancy occur before Election Day.
The issue has taken on new immediacy with the disclosure that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is receiving chemotherapy for a recurrence of cancer after four earlier bouts with the disease.
A nomination less than four months before the Nov. 3 election would fly in the face of McConnell's refusal in 2016 to consider a Supreme Court nominee by President Barack Obama nine months before that year's presidential vote.
