Is Amy Barrett the first Supreme Court nominee during a presidential election?
Posted on AllSides October 13th, 2020
From The Left
FACT CHECK
The claim: Trump is not the first president to nominate a Supreme Court justice amid an election
When President Donald Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to serve on the Supreme Court, Democrats – including former Vice President Joe Biden – accused him of defying precedent and becoming the first president to nominate a justice while “a presidential election is already underway.”
This was refuted in a tweet by conservative author Douglas Karr, in which he listed 10 times. presidents nominated someone to the country’s highest court during...
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