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Biden Calls for Delay in Vote on Supreme Court Nominee

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden called
   Sunday for the Republican-controlled Senate to delay confirmation of
   President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, saying voters "are not
   going to stand for this abuse of power."

   Biden said the Senate should delay action until after he or Trump is
   inaugurated in January for a new four-year term. But Trump has said
   that moving forward with his choice of Judge Amy Coney Barrett is his
   constitutional duty, even though no Supreme Court nominee has ever been
   put forth so close to a presidential election.

   Biden's comments come as Democrats and Republicans moved to use the
   Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
   to energize voters in the Nov. 3 election.

   "The Senate has to stand strong for our democracy," Biden said at a
   brief news conference in his home state of Delaware. He said the Senate
   moving ahead on the Barrett nomination "would be an irreversible step
   toward the brink. And a betrayal of a single quality that America is
   born and built on: The people decide."

   Should he win the election, Biden said the Barrett nomination should be
   withdrawn so he can make a pick.

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