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John Nichols: Feingold: ‘The Constitution provides that the Senate should advise and consent, not simply jam something through’

Russ Feingold knows his way around politics, as a former Wisconsin legislator who served three terms in the United States Senate. But even he was taken aback by the haste with which President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, began talking about naming and confirming a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the hours after the death of the pioneering jurist.

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Portrait of John Nichols

John Nichols: Feingold: ‘The Constitution provides that the Senate should advise and consent, not simply jam something through’

Russ Feingold knows his way around politics, as a former Wisconsin legislator who served three terms in the United States Senate. But even he was taken aback by the haste with which President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, began talking about naming and confirming a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the hours after the death of the pioneering jurist.

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