Fact check: Biden liberally claims Trump campaign only asked him Supreme Court list after Ruth Bader Ginsburg expired

Former Vice President Joe Biden made bogus claims in a Sunday speech where he urged Senate Republicans to allow the winner of the presidential election fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday. We're still poring on the transcript of Biden's speech in Philadelphia, but here are just two first facts tests.

The Trump campaign's demand for a record

Biden claimed that it could be improper for him to launch a list of potential Supreme Court nominees, as Trump did during the 2016 effort and did again this month. Biden also claimed that the Trump effort had not asked him to release such a list until after Ginsburg expired.

"We can not keep rewriting history, scrambling criteria, disregarding our cherished system of checks and balances. That includes this entire business of publishing a list of potential nominees that I'd put forward. They're saying, after they after Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away, they said, 'Biden should release his record.' It's no wonder the Trump effort asked that I publish the record just after she passed away. It is a game for them. It is a drama to gin up emotions and anger," he explained.

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

When Trump published his most recent list on September 9, the Trump campaign's statement said in its name that"Biden must do exactly the same." The effort repeated the demand to get a Biden list in a statement on September 17, the day before Ginsburg died.

Trump had issued the same requirement himself. In an August 24 speech at the Republican National Convention,'' Trump said, "I'm demanding, really, a listing: let Biden put up a listing of the judges he is going to appoint." And in a June 22 interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network,'' Trump said,"You ought to ask a guy like a Biden or ask his campaign: give a list of judgessee where they stand on pro-life, see where they stand on it"

Supreme Court dates

To bolster his case that the Senate must wait to confirm that the next justice, Biden said: "By the way, there's no court session between today and the conclusion of this election."

The court's next session is scheduled to start on October 5, almost a month before Election Day on November 3.