Crowd boos, chants 'vote him out' as President Trump pays his respects to late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg



President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were greeted by an antagonistic crowd Thursday as they paid their respects to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The crowd assembled outside the Supreme Court, where Ginsburg is lying in repose, and while at first they were quiet as the president bowed his head, soon they began to shout and jeer. Video from this morning captures loud booing and chants of "Vote him out" and "honor her wish" from the crowd.

President Trump & Melania pay their respects to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at her casket on the steps of the Supre… https://t.co/Fbf098Wd5E
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Chants of “Vote him out!” and “Honor her wish!” outside the Supreme Court as the president arrives https://t.co/lys9EqBuNs
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The campaign account for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) took advantage of the crowd's jeers to call on voters to "make a plan to VOTE HIM OUT."

Make a plan to VOTE HIM OUT 👉🏻 https://t.co/1JZe3sxeSd https://t.co/0ZcWl0QYx8
— Nancy Pelosi (@Nancy Pelosi)1600959271.0

The president and first lady exited after the crowd began booing.

According to NPR, Ginsburg dictated her dying wish to her granddaughter, telling her, "My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed." President Trump and Senate Republicans plan to exercise their constitutional authority and move forward with a Supreme Court nominee despite Ginsburg's last wishes.

Ginsburg, who died Friday at 87, was laid in repose at the Supreme Court Wednesday, the first of a three-day series of events to give Americans the chance to say their final farewells to the liberal justice icon, The Hill reported. She will become the first woman in American history to lie in state at the Capitol on Friday and only the second Supreme Court justice to be so honored.

A memorial service for Ginsburg's family, friends, and fellow members of the Supreme Court was held inside the court before public viewing commenced Wednesday.

"It has been said that Ruth wanted to be an opera virtuoso, but became a rock star instead," Chief Supreme Court Justice John Roberts said. "But she chose the law. Subjected to discrimination in law school and the job market because she was a woman, Ruth would grow to become a leading advocate fighting such discrimination in court. She was not an opera star, but she found her stage right behind me, in our courtroom. There, she won famous victories that helped move our nation closer to equal justice under law, to the extent that women are now a majority in the law schools, not simply a handful."

"Her voice in court and in our conference room was soft. But when she spoke, people listened," Roberts said.

President Trump plans to announce his nominee to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court at 5 p.m. Saturday in the Rose Garden of the White House.

"We are going to be having a very exciting Saturday at five o'clock in the Rose Garden, where I'll be putting forth my nominee for Supreme Court Justice," Trump told reporters Wednesday. "And I think it will be a great nominee, a brilliant nominee. As you know, it's a woman. We brought it down to five women. It's time for a woman to — to be chosen, with everything that's happened and with Justice Ginsburg's passing."

Biden refuses to say if he'd pack the Supreme Court with liberals if Republicans fill Ginsburg's seat



Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden refused to say whether he'd sign on to a plan to pack the Supreme Court with more liberal justices if the Republicans are able to fill late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat on the high court.

The former vice president made the comments on Monday in an interview with WBAY-TV.

"Let me tell you why I'm not gonna answer that question. Because it would shift all the focus," Biden said.

Democrats have tried to pressure the Republicans against trying to fill the seat, vacated by Ginsburg's death, by threatening to expand the court and pack it with more liberal justices. The Constitution does not stipulate how many justices should be on the Supreme Court.

"That's what he wants, he never wants to talk about the issue at hand he always tries to change the subject," Biden said of the president.

"But let's say I answer that question, then the whole debate's gonna be about what Biden said or didn't say. Biden said he would or wouldn't," he explained.

"The discussion should be about why he's moving in a direction totally that's totally inconsistent with what the founders wanted. The design in the Constitution it says, the design, voters get to pick the president, who gets to make the pick, and the Senate gets to decide," Biden said.

"We're in the middle of an election right now, you know, people are voting now. By the time this Supreme Court hearing would be held if they hold one, we'd in fact, we'd probably, there's estimated 30 to 40 percent of the American people would already have voted," he continued.

"It is a fundamental breach of constitutional principle," Biden concluded.

On Monday, the Republicans in the Senate appear to have enough support from their party to move ahead with the nomination process once the president makes it.

"We've got the votes to confirm Justice Ginsburg's replacement before the election, we're going to move forward in the committee, we're going to report the nomination out of the committee to the floor of the United States Senate so we can vote before the election," said Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).

Here's the video of Biden's comments:

Biden to @WBAY declines to answer q on adding seats to SCOTUS if GOP replaces RBG"It’s a legitimate question, but… https://t.co/YWznHyW9k3
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