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Initial information indicated the letters originated in Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.
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Initial information indicated the letters originated in Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.
The Republican senator announced that she does "not believe that the Senate should vote on the nominee prior to the election"
Mr. Trump tweeted on Saturday that Republicans have an "obligation" to push through a nominee to replace Ginsburg "without delay!"
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death leaves a vacancy just six weeks ahead of the presidential election.
The Democratic donation platform said it brought in more than $30 million between in 12 hours.
The Judiciary Committee chair had previously said he would not support filling a vacant seat in an election year.
"She said at one point that when they were judges together, initially on the appeals court, they sat next to each other and my dad would whisper jokes to her during arguments," Scalia's son recounted.
Judges Amy Coney Barrett, Barbara Lagoa and Amul Thapar are serious contenders for the vacant seat.
"President Trump's nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.
The president tweeted the call to GOP members less than 24 hours after Ginsburg died.
"I believe that it is today the American people who are best-positioned to help make this important decision," he said in 2016
Governor Andrew Cuomo also announced that Ginsburg will be honored with a statue in Brooklyn, her birthplace.
The storm is the latest to form in a hurricane season so active that forecasters have run out of traditional storm names.
The Senate majority leader has said he would fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court shortly before an election.
Well-wishers left flowers and signs and broke into songs.