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Mitch McConnell in 2016: “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be fi
by Qub3d 6y ago
Mitch McConnell in 2016: “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president."
I'm curious what his argument would be for this being different.
- mhh__ 6y agoThey just won't both bother responding. I remember Adam Schiff's arguments during the senate part of the impeachment procedure - "Is there any doubt he did it?", there was no real response to this. Mitt Romney is now the radical amongst the congressional GOP. The type of politicians who kicked the chair out from under their own leader during watergate are probably rare amongst democrats and non-existent bar one (https://youtu.be/qS-aFfJe20U https://youtu.be/qS-aFfJe20U) amongst these republicans.
- scialex2 6y agoThe president has an R next to his name this time.
- koolba 6y agoI can assure you that had Harry Reid been in charge of the Senate in 2016 he’d have pushed through a nominee as well.
- fullshark 6y agoThe justification is the president and senate were controlled by different parties. You can already see that spin online. Also no joke, his argument was based on something Joe Biden said as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1992. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/05/mcconnell-supreme-court-2020/590452/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/05/mcconne...
- anigbrowl 6y agoHis argument will be 'LOL sucks to be you.'