Boxer: GOP seeking RBG seat would be 'double-dealing hypocrites'
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THIS EPISODE: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death and the Senate GOP wanting to fill her Supreme Court seat with a Donald Trump nominee--despite a precedent set against this during President Obama’s final term by Republicans--are discussed by Sen. Amy Klobuchar. She tells Joy Reid that, ‘in her own words, [Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s] fervent wish is that the next president pick her replacement.’ NEXT: Mitch McConnell seeking to fill the late Justice Ginsburg’s seat is discussed by Sen. Mazie Hirono, who stresses that in her view voters coming out to vote is critical to this coming battle. THEN: GOP leaders would be 'double-dealing hypocrites' former Democratic U.S. Senator from California Barbara Boxer tells Joy Reid, if they attempt to allow Donald Trump to pick the next Supreme Court justice. AND: The United States has passed the grim milestone of 200,000 COVID-19 deaths. Lincoln Project senior advisor Stuart Stevens, author of ‘It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump,’ tells Joy Reid that in his view, ‘the Republican Party has abandoned its role as a governing party.’ All this and much more in this special edition of AM JOY, during which Joy Reid returns to lead our commemorative coverage of the death of the iconic Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at 87.
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