The Biden rule was when the Senate and Presidency were in different parties. So yes, I do remember. You don't
The “rule” that Moscow Mitch made up on the fly was ‘no SCOTUS appointments in an election year. Let the people decide’.
Biden: Democrat Senate won't confirm a Republican nominee in an election year
McConnell: Republican Senate won't confirm a Democrat nominee in an election year
You have to be a fucking retard to think either of them meant they wouldn't have confirmed their own party's nominee.
Oh wait, you are a retard, Syndi. Speaking of retards, that's a great avatar choice for you ...
You just love getting humiliated by me.
McConnell now says he’d hold SCOTUS hearings in an election year — in a reversal of 2016
The Senate majority leader admits the “Biden rule” was always a bunch of nonsense.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell now says he’d fill a Supreme Court seat in 2020 if one opens before the next presidential election — a revelation that indicates his refusal to confirm President Barack Obama’s nominee in 2016 was all about partisanship, not principle.
In 2016, McConnell said his refusal to even hold a hearing for Merrick Garland was rooted in the “
Biden rule.” That rule resulted from an overinterpretation of remarks then-Sen. Joe Biden made on the Senate floor in June 1992, in the wake of the contentious Clarence Thomas hearings, about how he thought it would be best for the Senate to hold off on additional SCOTUS confirmation hearings until after that year’s presidential election.
“The Senate will continue to observe the ‘Biden rule’ so that the American people have a voice in this momentous decision” on who to name to the court, McConnell said on the Senate floor three years ago.
If a Supreme Court seat opened early next year, one would think the “Biden rule” would again be in effect. But during a
Chamber of Commerce event in Paducah, Kentucky, on Tuesday, McConnell said it won’t.
“Should a Supreme Court justice die next year, what will your position be on filling that spot?” an attendee asked.
“Oh, we’d fill it,” McConnell replied with a smile.
The Senate majority leader admits the "Biden rule" was always a bunch of nonsense.
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