Pictured are President Donald Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky (wearing eyeglasses), and the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor in chief. Coleman trained for 17 years as a reporter with the Call and Post Newspaper and is an investigative and political reporter with a background in legal and scientific reporting. She is also a former 15-year public school biology teacher.

FAYETTEVILLE, North, Carolina-- President Donald Trump announced Saturday at a rally in North Carolina that he will nominate a woman to replace U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal justice appointed to the court by president Bill Clinton in 1993 who died Friday following a battle with pancreatic cancer.

"I will be putting forth a nominee next week. It will be a woman," Trump said at a campaign rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina on Saturday. "I think it should be a woman because I actually like women much more than men."

Trump said he hopes to swear in Ginsburg's successor before the Nov. 3 presidential election, an election where the Republican president will square off against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, a former vice president under former president Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president. .

He did not say if that woman will be Black or minority, the nine-member court of which has no Black women on its bench.

Senate Majority Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said the Senate, which has sole authority to confirm or reject a Supreme Court nominee, and independent of the House, will vote on the president's nominee before the November presidential election.

The Democrats are furious and say no such confirmation vote should come before the presidential election, though they have little, if any, recourse to block the measure since Republicans dominate the Senate, unless, of course, some Republican's refuse to support the nominee.

It is apparently now a trend for women, a strong voting bloc, to be chosen by presidents or presidential nominees in a given election year in key positions, Biden publicly promising to choose a woman running mate before he chose U.S. Sen Kamala Harris to run for vice president on his presidential ticket, Harris the first Black woman to compete in America on a major party presidential ticket.

At her death Ginsburg, 87, was one  of four liberals on the court, and one of three females, along side of Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayer, both of them liberals like Ginburg, and appointed by a Democratic president too, but by president Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president.

Ginsburg was the second woman to serve on the court, after Sandra Day O'Connor.

She was considered a judicial icon on issues ranging from abortion, voting and Civil Rights, to same sex marriage, immigration, healthcare, affirmative action and desegregation.