McConnell is blocking 400 bills Americans want -- but he's rushing a Supreme Court pick

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By Emily Singer -September 22, 2020 12:15 PM

McConnell has blocked everything from legislation to help unemployed workers to a bipartisan background check bill for gun sales.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has made pushing through Donald Trump's judicial nominees almost his singular focus of the past two years, confirming Trump's court picks at a rapid clip while blocking a slew of bills the Democratic-controlled House has passed.

Now, less than six weeks before the presidential election, McConnell has vowed to ram through a Supreme Court nominee to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — prioritizing filling the seat over helping Americans struggling to find work in the midst of the coronavirus-fueled economic depression.

Back in February 2016, when conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died, McConnell refused to give President Barack Obama's nominee Judge Merrick Garland a hearing, let alone a vote on the Senate floor. McConnell said a justice should not be confirmed in an election year, and that the next president should get to pick the nominee.

In 2020, McConnell has abandoned that policy, now vowing to confirm Trump's pick by a vote of senators whom voters may have rejected at the ballot box by the time they take a vote, possibly in a lame-duck session.

https://americanindependent.com/donald-trump-mitch-mcconnell-supreme-court-house-of-representatives-bills-senate/

There is only one way method to stop this show and that is bring Articles of Impeachment against Barr or Trump.............or any other cabinet crony

[Blue Owl]

1. The Grim Reaper can go reap himself

n/t

[DSandra]

2. Mitch is like Trump: "I dare you to stop me", "So, whatcha gonna do about it?"

[Thekaspervote]

3. What we gonna do about? We're gonna vote the pukes out of power on 11/3

As for mcturtle, we ditch the filibuster and pass all those bills while he sits back and can do nothing. I hope he has a stroke watching

[DSandra]

7. McTurtle makes Bill Frist and Trent Lott look good

Imagine McTurtle saying something like this about Obama or Nancy

[philf99]

4. The winning message

When Americans are suffering and need help, the Republicans give us judges

[gratuitous]

5. Priorities

One more ideologue on the Supreme Court is more important than 200,000 dead Americans. Just so our citizens know where they stand with the Republican party.

[young_at_heart]

6. I (literally) cannot look at him

without throwing up....his countenance is unbelievably gross!!