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September 22, 2020, 10:20
Updated: September 22, 2020, 10:28

Liberal Justice Ruth Ginsberg. After his death on Friday, who will be the newcomer to the Supreme Court bench is now the main election issue. Photo: Collected
Donald Trump lags behind his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, in most of the polls conducted so far to gauge voter turnout in the November 3 election in the United States. In the latest BBC poll just a week ago, Trump was 8 percentage points behind his opponent.
But with the death of Liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Beder Ginsberg on Friday, just six weeks before the election, many observers have speculated that the numbers could change dramatically. This has been said in a report of BBC Bangla.
Trump's dream of being easily re-elected six months ago on the back of job growth has turned into a nightmare due to the Kovid epidemic.
The question is, who will be the successor to the late Justice Ginsberg, and when হ in the heated debate that has now arisen, the issue of the Covid epidemic has suddenly been suppressed.
Many political observers say the Trump administration will now inevitably want the debate to continue until the election and use it to bring back angry Republican supporters because of Kovid.
The day after Justice Ginsberg's death, President Trump announced that he would quickly nominate a judge to fill the vacancy. He said on Monday that he would announce the name of his nominee by Friday or Saturday.
Democrat candidate Joe Biden immediately protested. According to him, no new judge can be appointed before the election. He said if the president really did, it would be an "extreme abuse of power."
Democrats fear
Democrats' main fear is that President Trump will appoint a judge to the nine-member bench of the Supreme Court, a staunch Conservative and Republican supporter, and that this will give Republicans a long-term monopoly on the Supreme Court.
These judges of the United States are appointed on death row and political considerations. As a result, the political and social views and ideological position of the judges are very important. Because when it is not possible to resolve important and political issues at any stage, the decision of the Supreme Court is the last word.
So far, the nine-member bench of the Supreme Court has had four "liberal" judges as opposed to five "conservative" judges. But with Justice Ginsberg's death on Friday, that equation stands at five-three. Now if President Trump appoints another hardline pro-Republican judge, the number of conservatives will be double that of three liberal judges.
As a result, there are deep fears among Democrats and Liberals that future Supreme Court rulings on important social issues, such as the right to abortion, the right to immigrants, or the right to same-sex marriage, will reflect the will of the hardline conservative section of the Republican Party. In addition, many observers say Democrats have not yet spoken out, but they fear that if the 2000 vote-counting dispute ends up in the Supreme Court, the verdict will not be in their favor.
What will Donald Trump do?
The BBC's North America correspondent Anthony Zarker says President Trump has a rare opportunity to appoint a third judge to the Supreme Court just 48 days before the election, and he will use that opportunity somehow. But there is uncertainty as to whether he will complete the appointment of a judge before November 3.
The BBC correspondent thinks that if President Trump does not rush to appoint a judge now and loses the election, he could try to get a new judge of his choice with Republicans in the Senate before the new Congress and the new president take office in January.
The ideological balance of the Supreme Court will change
In the United States, the idea is strong now, and President Trump also hinted on Sunday that Judge Amy Connie Barrett, known as a conservative, might be nominated. In that case, the ideological balance of the Supreme Court will shift to the conservatives for a long time to come.
The BBC's Anthony Zarkar says the issue of appointing a new judge to the Supreme Court in the 2016 election favored President Trump. Hardline evangelical Christians voted for Trump in groups, hoping the abortion law would be changed if a conservative judge came.
Will it be the same again? There is optimism in the Trump camp that conservative voters will come to his side once again, forgetting the Covid crisis. But many observers say the Supreme Court could be completely taken over by conservatives আশ fearing that liberals in the United States could now make a concerted effort to defeat Joe Biden.
Although the Supreme Court bench has nine members, there is no obligation in the US Constitution to increase or decrease it.
However, it is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving the post. He will not be able to confirm the outcome of the debate in November.