House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday refused to rule out using impeachment to block Senate Republicans from voting on President Trump’s nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy caused by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death.
ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos raised the possibility with Pelosi that the Democrat-controlled House would move to impeach Trump or Attorney General William Barr to stop the Senate from voting during a lame-duck session.
“Well, we have our options. We have arrows in our quiver that I’m not about to discuss right now, but the fact is we have a big challenge in our country,” Pelosi said on ABC News’ “This Week.”
“This president has threatened to not even accept the results of the election with statements that he and his henchmen have made.”
The California Democrat said that members of Congress “take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. We have a responsibility to meet the needs of the American people.”
“So, right now, our main goal — and I think Ruth Bader Ginsburg would want that to be — would be to protect the integrity of the election as we protect the American people from the coronavirus,” Pelosi said as the death toll to the pandemic in the US neared 200,000.
“So, again, when people say, what can I do? You can vote. You can get out the vote, and you can do so as soon as possible,” she said.
Trump said over the weekend that he would nominate someone to fill Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat this week, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he would have the GOP-controlled Senate take it up this fall.
Pelosi called the 87-year-old Ginsburg, who died on Friday, a “powerful, brilliant brain on the court.”
“She was brilliant, and she was strategic, and she was successful. And she did more for equality for women in our country than anyone that you can name, and women appreciate that, and I think that you will see women weighing in on all of these decisions, be the elections, confirmations or the rest,” Pelosi said.
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