WASHINGTON: Republicans lined up behind President Donald Trump’s push to widen the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Tuesday, leaving Democrats with little hope of blocking a conformation vote that could come before the Nov. 3 election.
Republican Senator Mitt Romney, a rare Trump critic in the caucus, said he would vote for a nominee, giving his party enough support to hold a vote for Trump’s third appointment to the high court, which would give it a 6-3 conservative majority. Trump has said he plans to announce his nominee by Saturday.
He and other Republicans dismissed Democratic arguments that the Senate should wait until after voters decide whether to re-elect Trump or chose Democratic challenger Joe Biden in November. A Reuters/Ipsos poll published on Sunday found that a majority of Americans,…