⁍ Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski is the second Republican in the U.S. Senate to object publicly following the death of liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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⁍ ‘I did not support taking up a nomination eight months before the 2016 election to fill the vacancy created by the passing of Justice Scalia,’ Murkowski said in a statement.

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⁍ ‘We are now even closer to the 2020 election – less than two months out – and I believe the same standard must apply,’ she said.

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– President Trump’s plan to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg with a woman on the Supreme Court has met with resistance from both sides of the aisle. Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska became the second Republican senator to oppose the plan on Sunday, reports Reuters. “I did not support taking up a nomination eight months before the 2016 election to fill the vacancy created by the passing of Justice Scalia,” Murkowski said in a statement. “We are now even closer to the 2020 election—less than two months out—and I believe the same standard must apply.” Murkowski is locked in a tight re-election battle, while fellow Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine voiced similar concerns on Saturday. Trump on Saturday named Amy Coney Barrett of the Chicago-based 7th Circuit and Barbara Lagoa of the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit as possible candidates to fill the vacancy created by Friday’s death of liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Hours before Trump’s rival in November, former Vice President Joe Biden, was due to address the plan, the president said at a campaign rally in North Carolina that “it should be a woman” because “I actually like women much more than men.”