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    Fact check: Biden falsely claims Trump campaign only asked him for Supreme Court list after Ruth Bad

    It's hard to believe that this story came from CNN.


    Washington(CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden made false claims in a Sunday speech in which he urged Senate Republicans to let the winner of the presidential election fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday.

    We're still poring over the transcript of Biden's address in Philadelphia, but here are two initial fact checks.

    Biden argued that it would be inappropriate for him to release a list of prospective Supreme Court nominees, as Trump did during the 2016 campaign and did again this month.

    Biden also claimed that the Trump campaign had not asked him to release such a list until after Ginsburg died.

    "We can't keep rewriting history, scrambling norms, ignoring our cherished system of checks and balances. That includes this whole business of releasing a list of potential nominees that I would put forward. They're now saying, after they -- after Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away, they said, 'Biden should release his list.' It's no wonder the Trump campaign asked that I release the list only after she passed away. It's a game for them. It's a play to gin up emotions and anger," he said.

    Facts First: This is just wrong. The Trump campaign and Trump himself had repeatedly said prior to Ginsburg's death that Biden should release a list of prospective Supreme Court nominees.

    When Trump released his latest list on September 9, the Trump campaign's statement said in its title that "Biden must do the same." The campaign repeated the demand for a Biden list in a statement on September 17, the day before Ginsburg died.

    Trump had previously issued the same demand himself. In an August 24 speech at the Republican National Convention, Trump said...

    Fact check: Biden falsely claims Trump campaign didn't ask him for Supreme Court list until after Ruth Bader Ginsburg died
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