Rik Mehta, Republican nominee challenging Cory Booker for New Jersey’s U.S. Senate seat scolds Booker, tells him “Do Your Job” and Fill our Supreme Court

CHESTER, NJ – With a critical Presidential election that has been marred by Constitutionally questionable State procedural changes in voting due to a pandemic it is now more important than ever for the U.S. Senate to swiftly confirm a Supreme Court nominee. As we learned in 2001, in the landmark case Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court decision ruled that the recount challenges in Florida violated the Equal Protection Clause as unconstitutional and was instrumental in upholding the law of democracy. The ruling on whether an alternative means of counting could be established within the time limit set by Title 3 of the United States Code came down to a close 5-4 decision. Without a full bench, a split decision could create a Constitutional crisis.

With the passing of justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court now has a critical vacancy that must be filled before the November election. With the uncertainty of this new potentially unconstitutional vote-by-mail order by Governor Murphy in New Jersey, it is very well likely that the election results or challenges may be brought in front of the country’s highest court; having a full complement of justices is imperative. President Trump is well within his Constitutionally granted powers to appoint a justice as 17 other Presidents have done in prior Presidential election years. As a nonpartisan issue, Democrat leaders like Chuck Schumer have also stated that it is “the duty” for the Senate to vote on a nominee even in a Presidential election year.

Learning of Cory Booker’s comment on MSNBC that “[the vacancy] should not be filled until after the next presidential inauguration”, Mehta stated “No surprise. Booker is known as America’s laziest Senator. For once, he needs to do his job and vote on the President’s nominee.”

As a member of the Supreme Court Bar who was sworn in with Justice Ginsburg on the panel, Mehta added “I wholeheartedly support the President nominating a new justice and the Senate majority leader calling a vote to confirm a justice. We know Booker misses more than 65% of the Senate votes, but this time our law of Democracy depends on it.”

Dr. Rik Mehta,

Member of the Supreme Court bar & Nominee for U.S. Senate in New Jersey.