Biff_Poindexter
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McConnell signals GOP would block Biden Supreme Court pick in ’24
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) signaled Monday that Republicans, if they win back control of the upper chamber, wouldn’t advance a Supreme Court nominee if a vacancy occu…
thehill.com
"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) signaled Monday that Republicans, if they win back control of the upper chamber, wouldn't advance a Supreme Court nominee if a vacancy occurred in 2024, the year of the next presidential election.
McConnell was asked if a GOP-controlled Senate would take the same tack in 2024 that it did in 2016, when they refused to give former President Obama's final Supreme Court pick, a hearing or a vote. McConnell declined to say what Republicans would do if a justice stepped down in mid-2023 and Republicans controlled the Senate. "We'll have to wait and see what happens," McConnell said, asked by Hewitt if the nominee would get a fair shot."
Mitch is exactly spot on here...and the reason this is being discussed is because of the strong chance that Breyer may step down soon..so if the Dems don't nominate the SC pick that Republicans tell them to (a Conservative) -- then that pick shouldn't ever get a hearing because that isn't bipartisanship....For example, when the GOP nominated Amy Barrett just mere weeks after the death of Ginsburg and then she was appointed just a week before the election -- that was done in a bipartisan way....Mitch basically asked the Dems whom they think should be nominated and they all said Amy...he wouldn't have just rammed thru a nominee like this just a month before the election if he didn't ok it with the Dems first....