Top union leaders—and the woman worker who triggered one of the justice’s most-memorable dissents—praised the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And many coupled it to demands there be no replacement for her on the High Court bench until after the next presidential inauguration, Jan. 20, 2021.
McConnell’s declaration, 44 days before Election Day, raised the stakes on the balloting even higher, as McConnell gives Trump free rein to nominate another far-right-wing jurist. The Kentuckian also set off a political firestorm, with many of the union leaders who lauded Ginsburg immediately joining the demand elsewhere for no vote until next presidential term.
Elise Bryant, president of the Coalition of Labor Union Women, called Justice Ginsburg “a trailblazer, a brilliant jurist and committed to justice for all. As we mourn her passing we must also take inspiration from her lifelong commitment to, ‘help repair tears in her society, to make things a little better through the use of whatever ability she has.’”