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Published 4 hours ago on February 13, 2020
By Matthew Chapman
On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) confirmed on Fox News that he will force through a Supreme Court confirmation if a seat becomes vacant between now and the election in November.
If youre asking me a hypothetical about whether this Republican Senate would confirm a member of the Supreme Court due to a vacancy created this year yeah, we would fill it, he said.
This is a complete reversal of McConnells attitude after Justice Antonin Scalia died four years ago to the day. At that time, he said President Barack Obama had no right to make a nomination in an election year, and the American people should decide the next justice in the presidential election and he falsely claimed that Vice President Joe Biden had already set such a precedent.
He claims this situation is different because in now, the White House and the Senate are the same party another new rule he apparently invented out of thin air.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/mcconnell-confirms-he-will-ram-through-a-supreme-court-confirmation-just-before-the-election-if-it-opens-up/
SO if you keel over dead on the senate floor..........................what next................................Pence is charge........................not how it works...........................you will be voted out of office before that happens, I will place 1 dollar........................that after take back the senate, there is going to some major cleaning up on your picks........................asshole......................people are going to start coming out of the woodwork and protests your criminal act...................count on it.....................I have a new book by Tom Snyder 20 acts of tyr·an·ny and how to fight back.........................
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough..............
leftieNanner
(15,160 posts)And you know what? If a spot came open in December 2020 after we win in November, he would do his best to cram in a new justice before January 20th!!!
F*** You Moscow Mitch!
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,997 posts)PTWB
(4,131 posts)Of course theyll fill the seat. No one expected they wouldnt.
pdxflyboy
(678 posts)Stack the court. Fuck 'em all.
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)2 and boom.
jr1118x
(97 posts)Except they are filling so many with fairly young judges who could be around for many years
lame54
(35,326 posts)vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)Unpatriotic asshole
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I hope none of the media folks who swallowed his bullshit line from 2016 will be surprised. Maybe Clarence Thomas is sick, though?
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)by anyone who is surprised by anything he does or says.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,369 posts)Or Jan 3, 2021, if Dems take the Senate.
HAB911
(8,916 posts)llmart
(15,555 posts)As if we had to hear him saying this out loud. We already know what a traitor this guy is to the country. He just keeps confirming it.
librechik
(30,676 posts)"It's my nature to poison and kill" McConnell continued.
maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)Just state that you have the power to stop it and that's what you'll do because it's in the interests of your Party.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)Moscow Mitch would ram through a SCOTUS justice in record time in the lame duck session if a spot opened up on November 4th - he doesn't care.
cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)their Supreme Court confirmations and do our own.
Their side lies, cheats, steals to get what they want. Our side turns over and plays dead and lets them walk all over us. If our side would actually do what they need to do to fight this stuff and start ramming our own people through, they wouldn't get away with it on their side anymore.
Initech
(100,104 posts)The biggest threat to freedom is our move toward a one party, authoritarian state. Mitch McConnell is certainly helping bring that.