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On the recordSeptember 19, 2020
If you care about all these rights, if you don't want big powerful, wealthy special interest to turn the clock back 100 years even, please, our fervent plea, our fervent wish is that you call your senator and say, abide by the wishes of this saintly, brilliant, caring woman, and let -- wait, let's have an election, let's see the results and then let us choose somebody on the Supreme Court.
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Chuck Schumer
Democratic · New York

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Chuck Schumer urges the public to contact their senators to respect Ruth Bader Ginsburg's wishes and delay the Supreme Court nomination until after the election.

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