Marchers urge R.I. senators to prevent Ginsburg replacement before election

PROVIDENCE — About 250 people marched to the downtown offices of Rhode Island’s two U.S. senators Sunday demanding they do everything possible — including employing procedural stalling tactics if necessary — to prevent their Republican colleagues from confirming a replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court before November’s election.

Speaking two days after Ginsburg died at 87 of cancer, rally organizers urged Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and the rest of the Democratic minority in the Senate to throw sand into the gears of the GOP’s “hypocritical” juggernaut.

In a year of fighting Trump policies and social injustices, “we are tired,” said Liz Gledhill, of the Rhode Island Democratic Women’s Caucus. “But we are not end-of-our-life 87-years-old tired.... We are tired, but we are not let-RBG-down tired.”

Gledhill said Ginsburg’s dying wish was that her replacement not be made until after the election, “and we are calling on Senator Jack Reed and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse to promise to do everything they can to honor that dying wish.”

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