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FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2008 file photo, people hold banners depicting six Jesuit priests massacred in 1989, during a memorial to mark the 19th anniversary of their death, in San Salvador. For years, attempts within El Salvador to investigate and prosecute the masterminds of the massacre during that country’s civil war have been delayed and deflected by legal maneuvers. (Edgar Romero/AP Photo File)

Push within El Salvador to advance priest massacre case

By MARCOS ALEMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2020, file photo Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a Biden for President Black economic summit at Camp North End in Charlotte, N.C. The final stretch of a presidential campaign is typically a nonstop mix of travel, caffeine and adrenaline. But as the worst pandemic in a century bears down on the United States, Joe Biden is taking a lower key approach. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Biden’s push for unity faces test with Supreme Court fight

By BILL BARROW - Associated Press

Women members of Congress pay their respects as the flag-draped casket of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lies in state at the U.S. Capitol, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Washington. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool via AP)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes history as first woman, Jewish person to lie in state at U.S. Capitol

By Gabriella Muñoz and Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks to members of the press on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, before boarding Marine One for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Trump is traveling to North Carolina and Florida. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Trump promotes health care ‘vision’ but gaps remain

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and JILL COLVIN - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., arrives to meet with reporters following a Republican strategy session, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020. Republican efforts to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg are likely to move swiftly this week, with President Donald Trump possibly nominating a replacement within days and GOP senators hoping to jump-start the confirmation process. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP senators see political, principle gain in court fight

By LISA MASCARO and ZEKE MILLER and MARY CLARE JALONICK - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

EDITORIAL: President Trump should make a Supreme Court pick

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Republican state attorneys general about social media companies, in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump predicts Supreme Court will decide election outcome

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Republican Daniel Gade, who is running against Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., holds a gathering at Hardywood Brewery in Richmond, Va. (Joe Mahoney/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)

Daniel Gade attacks Mark Warner in first debate as flip-flopper

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The sun rises behind the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, before a private ceremony and public viewing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ginsburg, 87, died of cancer on Sept. 18. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

The Latest: Trump says he won’t meet with Judge Lagoa

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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Republican state attorneys general about social media companies, in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s untruths on court pick, Biden’s flubs

By HOPE YEN and MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

This Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, photo provided by James Kirkpatrick, the Tallahassee, Fla., resident poses for a photo. Kirpatrick is an independent who is likely voting for former Vice President Joe Biden. He was initially voting for the Green Party candidate but his friends persuaded him to vote for Biden after the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Senate Republicans, he said, should follow the precedent they set when they declined to move forward with President Barack Obama's final nominee to the High Court. &quot;If you're going to start a precedent you should stick to it,&quot; he said. (James Kirkpatrick via AP)

High court fight adds to pile of issues weighing on voters

By JILL COLVIN - Associated Press

The flag-draped casket of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, carried by Supreme Court police officers, arrives in the Great Hall at the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. Ginsburg, 87, died of cancer on Sept. 18. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

John Roberts remembers Ruth Bader Ginsburg: ‘When she spoke, people listened’

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Hogan: High court nomination before election ‘a mistake’

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This July 25, 2018, file photo shows Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, in Washington. Warner and Republican challenger Daniel Gade participated in a virtual debate in Northern Virginia earlier in the day. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Virginia: Warner, Gade meet in first debate of Senate race

By ALAN SUDERMAN - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., arrives to meet with reporters following a Republican strategy session, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020. Republican efforts to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg are likely to move swiftly this week, with President Donald Trump possibly nominating a replacement within days and GOP senators hoping to jump-start the confirmation process. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP senators see political, principle gain in court fight

By LISA MASCARO and ZEKE MILLER and MARY CLARE JALONICK - Associated Press

Mourners pay their respect to the flag-draped casket of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. Ginsburg, 87, died of cancer on Sept. 18. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Mourners pay respects to Ruth Bader Ginsburg

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

A memorial to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg includes a photograph of the late Justice, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, outside the Harvard Law School library at Langdell Hall, on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. Ginsburg, who attended Harvard law school but transferred to Columbia, died Friday, Sept. 18, 2020, at the age of 87. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Long lines of mourners pay respects to Ginsburg at court

By MARK SHERMAN and MATTHEW BARAKAT - Associated Press

Illustration on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

For Justice Ginsburg, the Constitution unleashed the Court and government

By Andrew P. Napolitano

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry in Manitowoc, Wis., Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Joe Biden declines to take a position on expanding Supreme Court

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Supporters of President Donald Trump hold up signs as he speaks at a campaign rally, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020, in Swanton, Ohio. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Trump, Biden fight to define campaign’s most pressing issues

By STEVE PEOPLES and ZEKE MILLER and ALEXANDRA JAFFE - Associated Press