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With the presidential election only 44 days away, the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has shaken the race between Donald Trump and Joe Biden \u2014 along with 33 U.S. Senate battles across the country \u2014 to the core.<\/p>\n

A new Trump-nominated justice would cement a commanding conservative majority for the first time since the 1960s, a long-sought goal of the right that would have far-reaching effects on questions of abortion, religious freedom, gun rights, and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to respect the process,\u201d Trump told reporters Saturday, adding that he expects to announce a nominee in the coming week \u2013 and that his choice will \u201cmost likely\u201d be a woman.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s going to go very quickly, actually,\u201d he said. \u201cI think we\u2019ll have a very popular choice, whoever that may be.\u201d<\/p>\n

And as senators spar over whether and when they should confirm a replacement for Ginsburg, who died Friday of pancreatic cancer, campaign issues like President Trump\u2019s response to the coronavirus pandemic \u2014 which Joe Biden has made a centerpiece of his attack \u2014 are already in the rear-view mirror.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will prevent Biden from focusing entirely on COVID from now until Election Day,\u201d GOP strategist Luke Thompson told The Post.<\/p>\n

But Trump\u2019s nomination of the third Supreme Court justice of his term, and the coming clash in the Senate to get his nominee confirmed, is stirring up activists on both sides.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Democrats are feeling galvanized,\u201d a Democratic Senate insider said. More than $31 million poured into the coffers<\/a> of ActBlue, the party\u2019s online fundraising site, in the hours after Ginsburg\u2019s death was announced.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a winning issue for Republicans,\u201d Carrie Severino of the Judicial Crisis Network argued. \u201cThe Supreme Court is the reason we have Donald Trump as president.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2016, Trump made SCOTUS a primary part of his pitch to conservatives. He released an unprecedented list of potential judicial nominees to woo them \u2014 then stuck to it when he named an originalist jurist from the group, Neil Gorsuch, to the nation\u2019s highest court in 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore than one-fifth of voters said the Supreme Court was their top issue in 2016, and that group broke decidedly for Donald Trump,\u201d Severino said. \u201cThis is really significant for his voters.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the vicious Senate fight over the confirmation of Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018, which gave right-leaning jurists a slender 5-4 majority, made the fate of the Court an equally hot-button issue for Democrats.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Trump tries to push someone through, we\u2019ll pack the court,\u201d the Senate insider said \u2014 that is, add new Supreme Court slots and fill them with liberal justices. \u201cRepublicans are playing with fire and they\u2019re going to get burned.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Election Day looming, Democrats are crying foul over the very idea of Trump naming a new justice, after GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell\u2019s February 2016 decision to block a vote on President Barack Obama\u2019s election-year nominee, Merrick Garland.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president,\u201d Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tweeted Friday night, echoing McConnell\u2019s 2016 statement.<\/p>\n

But 67 percent of Americans \u2014 regardless of party affiliation \u2014 believe the Senate should move forward with confirmation hearings for a new justice this year, according to a Marquette University Law School poll released Saturday.<\/p>\n

Trump signaled on Saturday his intention to name a replacement \u201cwithout delay!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were put in this position of power and importance to make decisions for the people who so proudly elected us,\u201d the president tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

McConnell \u2014 whose Senate majority has confirmed a record number of judges to the federal bench \u2014 has long insisted he would not let the Garland precedent stop him from sending a nominee to the high court.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump\u2019s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate,\u201d McConnell promised Friday.<\/p>\n

And Senate Judiciary chairman Lindsey Graham \u2014 who said in 2018 that he would \u201cwait to the next election\u201d if a Supreme Court opening came up in the last year of President Trump\u2019s term \u2014 has since changed his mind.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah. We\u2019ll cross that bridge,\u201d Graham told reporters last month.<\/a> \u201cAfter [Brett] Kavanaugh, the rules have changed as far as I\u2019m concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSchumer\u2019s play is to delegitimize the entire process now,\u201d Thompson said.<\/p>\n

With the Senate controlled by the GOP, 53 seats to 47, the Dems would need to flip four Republicans in order to block a Trump nominee.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t see that,\u201d Thompson said.<\/p>\n

A brawl over a new Trump nominee could have profound effects on senatorial elections in 33 states this November, when the GOP will be defending 21 seats.<\/p>\n

The controversy could help endangered Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Martha McSally of Arizona, who have lost favor with the GOP base for their sometimes lukewarm support of Trump. Both rushed to back the president\u2019s plan to name a nominee.<\/p>\n

But at-risk Republicans in blue and purple states, like Maine\u2019s Susan Collins and Colorado\u2019s Cory Gardner, are walking a political tightrope.<\/p>\n

Collins said in a statement on Saturday<\/a> that she \u201cdoes not believe that the Senate should vote on the nominee prior to the election\u201d \u2014 but she did not say whether she would vote to reject a candidate who was brought to the floor for a vote.<\/p>\n

She did say she would not object to pre-election hearings being held by the Senate Judiciary Committee to vet the credentials of a Trump nominee.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Trump foes like Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) \u2014 who was the only Republican to vote in favor of his impeachment \u2014 have so far remained silent.<\/p>\n

With a slim majority, McConnell can only afford three GOP defections in the series of required floor votes necessary to get Trump\u2019s nominee confirmed.<\/p>\n

And the memory of Bush v. Gore in 2000, which threw the presidential election to the Supreme Court to decide, gives McConnell every incentive to twist arms, with a tight presidential election around the corner.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t want to go into a potential fight over election rules with only eight justices who could deadlock in a 4-4 tie,\u201d said GOP analyst Ford O\u2019Connell. \u201cYou want nine. If that doesn\u2019t happ<\/a>en, the Republicans will have only themselves to blame.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, potentially explosive Judiciary Committee hearings will steal attention away from the campaign trail \u2014 and will force the Democrats\u2019 vice presidential nominee, California Sen. Kamala Harris, a Judiciary Committee member, back into the chamber.<\/p>\n

The hearings could cause headaches for the Democrats, Thompson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be very, very animated activists who might behave badly for attention,\u201d as they did during the Kavanaugh hearings, he said. \u201cWe could hear a lot of really ugly anti-Catholic rhetoric if the nominee is Catholic. That could be a problem for Democrats, especially in the Rust Belt.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n