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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.
TOLEDO, Ohio-President Trump campaigned in Ohio Monday while also taking the time to announce that he will name his nominee by Saturday that he hopes will replace U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal justice and women's rights pioneer appointed to the court by president Bill Clinton in 1993 who died Friday following an extensive battle with pancreatic cancer.
"I think it'll be on Friday or Saturday and we want to pay respect," the Republican president told a commentator of "Fox and Friends" Monday morning before heading to Ohio where he made two campaign stops, including for a rally in Toledo.
He told the crowd at the rally that he feels confident the Black and Latina communities will vote for him, and that he expects to win the November presidential election.
His rival, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, is leading by double digits in the national polls and is ahead in most of the swings states, including the pivotal state of Ohio where he is up slightly.
“We’re doing great in the polls with the Black community and the Hispanic community,” Trump said to a round of applause at the Toledo rally, his second visit to the city since he campaigned there in January.
The president has said that he hopes to swear in Ginsburg's successor before the Nov. 3 presidential election
He said his short list relative to his Supreme Court pick is down to five women, but did not say if a Black woman is among them, the nine-member Supreme Court void of Black female justices during a time when the Black Lives Matter Movement and women's rights issue are front and center.
Senate Majority Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has 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.
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.
She 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.
