Governor Tom Wolf is calling on U.S. Senator Pat Toomey to refuse to vote on a nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court until after the election in November.
A seat on the high court was opened up when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away on September 18.
Trump has said he plans to announce his nominee to replace Ginsburg this week, but some are calling for the process to wait until after the presidential election.
In 2016, Toomey was opposed to voting on then President Obama's nominee to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia until after the election.
Earlier this week, he said there's no need to wait to fill the seat.
In a statement released Thursday, Wolf said “At a time when vital issues that affect the lives, health and safety of Pennsylvanians are being brought for consideration before the highest court in the nation, our leaders must proceed with great care and deliberation as they determine the right person to fill Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the bench.
“The next Supreme Court Justice will join the court in ruling on key issues of our day that are of grave importance to Pennsylvanians, including health care and a woman’s right to choose. It would be an unconscionable error to rush into a nomination when the people of Pennsylvania and the nation as a whole will make clear their wishes for the future of our country in a few short weeks.
“In 2016, Sen. Toomey refused to vote on a nominee to the Supreme Court after Associate Justice Antonin Scalia passed away eleven months prior to the election. To quote the senator’s own words from that time, ‘This decision should not be rushed, and it should not be made amid the clamoring of a presidential election season.’
“With less than a month and a half before the 2020 general election, I call on Sen. Toomey to uphold his own precedent, and commit to refusing to vote for or against any nominee to the Supreme Court until the next presidential term begins.”