During an interview with TMJ4 in Wisconsin, Joe Biden weighed into the debate surrounding the Supreme Court vacancy made by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Biden claimed the idea of President Trump nominating a successor before the election as "unprecedented", but also as "a violation of the spirit of the Constitution."
Biden justified this by claiming that up to 40% of the people would have already voted. Additionally, when asked if he would release his list of picks from the new Supreme Court position, he refused to do so until he wins the election.
Of course, picking Supreme Court nominees during a presidential election has happened multiple times throughout U.S. history with Woodrow Wilson nominating Louis Brandeis and John Clarke in January and July of the 1916 Election respectively. In addition to Woodrow Wilson (1916), Millard Fillmore (1852), Herbert Hoover (1932), F.D.R. (1940), L.B.J. (1968) and even Barack Obama (2016) all nominated Supreme Court picks in their respective elections.
Biden gave several reasons for refusing to disclose his list of Supreme Court nominees for the vacancy, among them that Trump will use such information for political gain in the impending election.
"Should voters know who you're going to appoint?" Biden was asked.
"No they don't," he responded. "But they will if I'm elected."
H/T Daily Wire