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By Tierney Sneed
October 6, 2018 4:55 pm
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) would not commit to holding open any Supreme Court vacancy under President Trump created in a presidential election year, the way he blocked President Obamas nominee Judge Merrick Garland, ostensibly because the seat had opened after the presidential primaries had started.
Who controls the Senate when you have a vacancy that close to an election makes a big difference, McConnell said at a press conference Saturday after the Senate narrowly confirmed to the Supreme Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Theres not a doubt in anybodys mind, I am sure, that if the shoe was on the other foot in 2016, and it had been a Republican president making the nomination to a Democratic Senate, it wouldnt have been filled.
Garland, a moderate judge, was nominated to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who died unexpectedly in February 2016. The Senate GOP would not even grant him a hearing, arguing that the vacancy should be filled by a judge chosen by the president who won the 2016 election.
So well see what it looks like in 2020: first, do we have a vacancy; second, whos in charge of the Senate, McConnell said Saturday.
McConnell was asked about the hypothetical of another vacancy particularly if it was to replace the liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and whether he would encourage Trump to chose a conservative to take that seat.
Of course, McConnell said.
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RandiFan1290
(6,235 posts)They are not trying to get along with us or be bipartisan.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)if one team cheated on every play? The game would lose its audience and everyone would lose.
RandiFan1290
(6,235 posts)They are giving their voters what they voted for instead of excuses of trying to be bipartisan.