Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said unequivocally Friday night that President Trumps Supreme Court nominee to fill the vacancy of late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate. Ginsburg, 87, died Friday from complications surrounding metastatic pancreas cancer. The Senate and the nation mourn the sudden passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the conclusion of her extraordinary American life, McConnell said in a statement Friday.