Flag draped casket to pay my respects. It was somber and it was personal. And it was an extra ordinary moment for me, as i am sure it was for you and millions of americans and people around the with who felt a connection the great are bg rbg. It was sad because we lost a giant not only of the court but of american life. It was a celebration. Few people in our history have done more to change the lives of the American People than Ruth Bader Ginsburg did as a lawyer, advocate, and a Supreme Court justice. And it was an inspiration and a call to each of us, for each of us to be better, to stay in the fight, and stay committed to what motivated Justice Ginsburg etched inthat phrase the marble of the United StatesSupreme Court equal justice under the law. Justice ginsburg came to her view of the law not from a textbook but from life. Her own life. She often told the story of how she had personally felt the sting of discrimination as a woman, as the mother of a young child trying to find work, and so she committed her life casebycase, law by law, to tear down the obstacles in the way of so many, and especially women. Are about to undertake the task of finding her replacement on the United StatesSupreme Court. Of course, it is hard to say those words. Ginsburg ruth bader cannot be replaced. She was and original, a oneofakind she was an original, a oneofakind. She combined a steel spine with an openty to extend hand, never a closed fist. She demonstrated you could both hold firm to your principles and still hear those with whom you disagree. That is a lesson that should be ringing in our ears, but it looks like this president and in party are not interested hearing any of the lessons from Justice Ginsburg. Already, the president and his party have chosen to ignore Justice Ginsburgs final wish to hold off the nomination to replace her until after the next president is chosen. Ish, by the way, shared by a wish, by the way, shared by the American People. And, look, it is not complicated. The voters would simply like to have the opportunity to vote for their president before the senate votes on a nominee. And that is not too much to ask, but President Trump and his party are not interested in hearing the will of the people. Fact, my sense is that they are afraid of what they are going to be told. We are not even debating this is important we are not even debating whether the senate should hold hearings on a nominee in an election year. We are not in the middle of an election year. We are in the middle of an election. An ongoing election. One million americans have already voted. And more will vote this week and next week and, in just a few weeks, all americans will have voted. But President Trump and his party do not care. To jam thisnt nomination through as fast as they can. It is called raw power. But President Trump and his party are about to learn something. It is theyink that who have the power in this country, but they do not. The American People are the ones who have the power. You have the power. Clear, can make it very very soon, how you feel about being cut out of this Supreme Court nomination process. Even worse,se both the president and his party even worse than both the president and his party ignoring Justice Ginsburgs final wish is to select a nominee who will lifesrror undo her work. It will impact our lives in three critical ways. They have made it clear that they will get a justice who will get rid of the Affordable Care act. Just days after the election, the court will hear a case that could strike down the affordable its entirety. It is a decision that could take away health care for 20 million americans. It is a decision that could take away protections for preexisting conditions for more than 100 Million People in our country. It is a decision that could take away medicare benefits for seniors. It is a decision that could toss out the rule that says children can be covered on their Parent Health care up to the age of 26. All of that will hurt the millions of americans who have come to rely on the Affordable Care act. Offensives especially about what President Trump and his party are up to is this getting rid of the Affordable Care act take us backward to a time where you could charge a woman more for her health care than you could charge a man just because she is a woman. Getting her to the Affordable Care act will take us backward to a time when pregnancy could be considered a preexisting condition. Getting rid of the Affordable Care act would take away Birth Control and contraceptive coverage for women. Get this this relentless obsession with overturning the Affordable Care act is driven towardy by a blind greed a blind read toward blind rage toward president obama at a countryn our is suffering from the ravages of a pandemic that has taken over 200,000 lives. Likeications from covid19 lung scarring and heart damage could well become the next preexisting condition. In short, there are few things they could do that could be more offensive to the legacy and life of Justice Ginsburg then to return us to the fullscale policies of discrimination in health care the women of our country, but that is what overturning the Affordable Care act will do. And overturning the Affordable Care act is away the nominee gets the support of this president and his party. As attorney general of california, i defended your right to health care. As senator, i voted to protect your right to health care, but now President Trump has nominated judge amy coney judget and we know where stands on the Affordable Care act. Judge barrett on record opposing the decision that upheld the Affordable Care act. As recently as 2017, she specifically attacked the chief justices opinion in an article where she said chief Justice Roberts pushed the Affordable Care act beyond its plausible meaning to save the statute. If nothing else, the voters should be very clear about one thing. President trump and his party and judge merrick will overturn and judge barrett will overturn the Affordable Care act, and they will not stop there. They have made clear that they want to overturn roe v. Wade and restrict reproductive rights and freedoms. Judge barrett has a long record of opposing abortion and reproductive rights. Issue that other so disrespects and dishonors the work of Justice Ginsburgs life than undoing the seminal decision and the court in the courts history that made it clear a woman has a right to make decisions about her own body. But that is where President Trump and his party and judge barrett are. So, lets make it clear where we are. Lets vote for health care. Vote for the Affordable Care act. Vote as if your life, your choice, depends on it, because it does. To President Trump and every republican senator that if they are determined to get rid of your health care, you will be just as determined to vote them out of office. Second. Vote as if your right to vote depends on it, because it does. In 2013, the Supreme Courts decision in shell v holder gutted the heart of the Voting Rights act. Holderhelby versus gutted the heart of the Voting Rights act. States enacted and targetedy laws people of color and students. Justice ginsburg wrote that the decision was like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm. Right here in north carolina, a Voter Suppression law was described by a federal court is having targeted africanamericans court as having targeted africanamericans with almost surgical precision to deny us the right to vote. Surgical precision. After the people of florida voted to grant formerly incarcerated citizens the right to vote, republican officials recently enacted a modernday poll tax to make it harder for those citizens to exercise that very right in this upcoming election. And this modernday poll tax was upheld by the 11th Circuit Court of appeals in large part because of judges appointed by donald trump. But, you see, heres the thing he knows he cannot win if the people vote. Isald trump is weak, so he throwing up every roadblock he can to try and suppress the cannotnd we the people let him get away with it. Steak what it is at stake. Our ability to make a living, take care of our families, and dismantle systemic racism. That is at stake too. For example, courts can determine your ability to earn a living wage, receive equal pay for equal work, or collectively bargain for your rights at work. Court, extra vote on the donald trump and his party will continue their attack on laws that keeps our air clean and food and water safe and attacks any legislation that addresses climate change. They will continue to divide us and ignore the systemic racism that still plagues our society. There decisions could fail to decisions could fail to hold the actors in our criminal justice accountable. Victims of brutality by Law Enforcement might be less successful to succeed in civil rights claims. These are the decisions that would upend Justice Ginsburgs lifes work to uphold basic liberties of all americans. Of race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or economic station. Yes, she was part of our culture. Big we wear those notorious tshirts with a lot of pride, but since she passed, there are parents reminding children that she helped their lives in concrete yet immeasurable ways. Because of her, they could get a job of their dreams, fight for equal pay for their work, marry the person they love, serve the country they love, and enjoy the full rights and privileges of citizenship that they deserve free of discrimination. Belief inegacy, her all of us, is at stake. Election,e of this more than any other in our lifetime, affects every part of your life and every part of and every branch of government all at once with consequences that will last generations. Nation iner the crisis and at a crossroads, the pandemic, the recession, our reckoning on racial injustice, a withing climate, a crisis the nomination to the Supreme Court. So, you know, i know that it feels sometimes like this is just too much, too much for us to take, too much for our country to take. And i think that is what they want you to believe. They want you to feel tired. They want you to feel like your fight does not matter. Give up and we will not give in. Infectiont let the that President Trump has injected into the presidency and into congress, that has paralyzed our politics and pitted americans against each other, spread to the United StatesSupreme Court. This election is about more than the presidency or the senate or the Supreme Court. This election as about our democracy. Is about our democracy. And as joe biden has said from the moment he entered this race, it is about the soul of our nation, who we are, what we stand for. Whomaybe most importantly we want to be. What i felt when i said goodbye to justice ginsberg. She understood the soul of our nation and what is expected of each of us and that belief is especially resonant at a place like shaw university, one of our nations first black landmarks of people mourn into bondage and intolity stood on born bondage and brutality stood on this ground as scholars. I stand here, at the countrys First University hall built to educate black women in america, a century later and a few months after the greensboro sitton, ella baker and fellow students sit in, ella baker and fellow students started the committee. I stand here on their shoulders and with all of you as the nominee for Vice President of the United States. Biden, who will be your next president. I stand with cal cunningham, who will be the next senator from the great state of north carolina, and i stand with them and the American People to fight for a Supreme Court justice who like Justice Ginsburg truly believes in equal justice under law. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. May god bless you all, and may god bless the United States of america. A live picture this afternoon from Case Western University in cleveland, where President Donald Trump and joe biden will debate. We will have live coverage starting at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Coming up this afternoon, President Trump will be giving an update on coronavirus testing and the pandemic. Live coverage will start at 3 30 eastern. Who will control congress in january . Stay informed and all of the congressional races leading up to election day, with cspans campaign 2020 coverage. Watch the candidates debate and Election Results on cspan. Watch online at cspan. Org or listen on the free cspan radio app. Cspan, your unfiltered view of politics. Evening, candidates for south carolinas first congressional district, Joe Cunningham debates challenger nancy mase. A debate for, montanas u. S. Senate seat. The incumbent is being challenged by the state governor watch live coverage on cspan, online at cspan. 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