Newsweek Tuesday it has "no comment at this time" on Barrett's potential nomination but is watching the unfolding events closely.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said last Friday that Senate Republicans are poised to approve the president's nominee as soon as possible should Trump follow through on his 2018 claim, "I'm saving [Barrett] to [replace Ruth Bader] Ginsburg" nearly two years before the justice's death.The decision on whether to oppose Barrett comes after the death last Friday of Ginsburg, who was the co-founder of the Women's Rights Project at the ACLU and an icon of U.S.