Trump names three sitting senators among 20 possible supreme court picks
This excerpt is from a piece originally ran by The Guardian on September 9, 2020.
“If there’s one thing this president doesn’t lie about, it’s his eagerness to stack the courts with extremists prepared to carry out Republicans’ conservative agenda, overturning access to health care and abortion,” Nan Aron, president of Alliance for Justice, said. “This is a last-ditch effort by the president to energize his base. Trump is clearly trying to distract the American public from an astonishing number of damning allegations right now.”