Mitch McConnell Refuses to Say He Won't Confirm a SCOTUS Nominee Next Presidential Election Year

[highplainsdem]

Source: Mediaite

On Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace repeatedly asked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConell (R-KY) whether he would commit to the so-called “Garland standard” and not seat a Supreme Court Justice in the next Presidential election year, should there be a vacancy on the court before the end of Donald Trump‘s first term. McConnell repeatedly refused to agree.

Wallace said that the Senate had paid a price in the confirmation of newly seated Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and played a clip of Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) railing against Republicans for complaining about delays when Judge Merrick Garland was delayed past the election and out of his nomination.

“We didn’t attack Merrick Garland’s background and try to destroy him, we didn’t go on a search and destroy mission” McConnell said of Schumer’s comments. “We simply followed the tradition in America which is that if you have a party of a different– a senate of a different party than the president you don’t fill a vacancy created in a presidential year. That went all the way back to 1888.”

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Wallace asked about his specificity now on the party difference. “When you blocked Merrick Garland’s nomination from President Obama, you basically said that we don’t do this in a presidential election year, and that we wait until the election and then whoever the people choose, they get to pick the Supreme Court nominee,” said Wallace. But what you just said now was it’s a question of whether or not the part in control of the Senate is different than the president.”

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Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/mitch-mcconnell-refuses-to-say-he-wont-confirm-a-scotus-nominee-in-presidential-election-year/

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Video at the link.

[Fred Sanders]

1. Mitch is the Master of Hypocrisy. Apparently a vital asset for Republicans but of little matter or

concern to a media always on the hunt for a horse race election.

Media suffers great loss of political ad Money when one horse in a two horse race is 20 lengths ahead going into the stretch.

[Ilsa]

2. Mitch is the Assistant to the Liar in Chief.

I hardly bear to watch any of this any more. I fear for my family idf we don't make significant progress in reclaiming democracy in November.

[TimeToGo]

3. They have no honor

[kacekwl]

4. McConnell and the republicans are blatantly bringing fascism to the US. If

this group were governing a forgein country we would be trying to overthrow said government and demand regime change . This is criminal , traitorous at the very least.

[C_U_L8R]

5. It's only a 'rule' when it benefits him

Yeah, we see you Mitch... and wish we could unsee you.

[getagrip_already]

6. You know it's going to get worse when they stop trying.....

They aren't even pretending anymore. Not so much as a fig leaf.

It's just one long FU right now. But boy, how they will howl when the tables turn.

[Bengus81]

7. Oh Gosh....Republicans and Turtle didn't attack Garland and try and destroy him!!!!

Fucking SERIOUSLY??? Why the HELL would you need to when you knew your were going to DELAY his nomination and run the clock out for 400+ days??

The last thing your NAZI'S wanted to do was to have his name so much as mentioned.

[rdking647]

8. come 2020 assuming teh dems control the WH senate and house they should to the following

1) make puerto rico a state
2) make washingtn dc a state carving out the white house capital and government buildings to sidestep the district clause of the constitution
3) change the judiciary act of 1869 so that there are 11 justices on the court instead of 9. or if trump adds any more for every one he adds add 2 more .

this will result in
a) 4 more reliably democratic senators
b) 3 more reliably democratic electoral votes
c) the nullification of kavenaugh

[Thekaspervote]

9. So.. let's see.. they're going to buy Clarence Thomas's retirement too b4 2020

[in2herbs]

10. I may get blasted for this but we need to replace Schumer --- like yesterday!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

17. Replacing Schumer doesn't give us a majority in the Senate.

We need to gain a majority. Then we can bicker about leadership.

[in2herbs]

20. No, but his replacement will give us someone to lead with a backbone.

[Chemisse]

11. That's because it wasn't the Garland Standard; It was the Obama Standard.

Never again to be applicable.

[Tiggeroshii]

12. If you arent livid you arent paying attention.

What. The. Actual. Fuck.


He isnt even trying to look honest

[Timmygoat]

13. Just an unrealted thought

Was Mitch McConnell really kicked out of the military for sodomy?

[Tiggeroshii]

14. No. Discharged for bad eyes.

[Tiggeroshii]

18. Apparently there could be truth to it:

From 2008: https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_137083

[TexasTowelie]

15. I'm filling up my bladder and anxiously waiting for Mitch's demise.

Let his name be mentioned only when talking about other traitors such as Benedict Arnold.

[jgmiller]

16. Let's be honest with ourselves

This is a man who's approval rating in his own state is 18%, he does not care what anyone thinks except himself and whoever he is trying to please. I don't think he's in a conspiracy with Trump, I think he has his own plan; maybe that plan is how he thinks the US should be, maybe it's to help some group of donors, maybe it's just because he's a crazy old man. However anyone who has that low of an approval rating can't be reasoned with or expected to do anything that isn't in their own self interest.

[riversedge]

19. Mitch will if the opportunity arises. Yes. he. will.

[Steerpike]

21. we have shown him weakness

and that is all they need