You go, Mitch!
No reason to not replace her now.
McConnell: Trump's Supreme Court nominee 'will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate'
Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell said unequivocally Friday night that President Trumpās
Supreme Court nominee to fill the vacancy of late Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg āwill receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.ā
Ginsburg, 87, died Friday from complications surrounding metastatic pancreas cancer.
āThe Senate and the nation mourn the sudden passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the conclusion of her extraordinary American life,ā McConnell said in a statement Friday.
āIn the last midterm election before Justice Scaliaās death in 2016, Americans elected a Republican Senate majority because we pledged to check and balance the last days of a lame-duck presidentās second term. We kept our promise,ā McConnell continued. āSince the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed an opposite-party presidentās Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year.ā
McConnell added that āby contrast, Americans reelected our majority in 2016 and expanded it in 2018 because we pledged to work with President Trump and support his agenda, particularly his outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary.ā
āOnce again, we will keep our promise,ā he said. āPresident Trumpās nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.ā
SUPREME COURT JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG DIES AT 87
In May 2019, McConnell, R-Ky., made clear that should a vacancy materialize in the midst of the 2020 election cycle, the GOP-majority Senate would likely āfill it.ā
Senate Republicans have signaled that they would likely fill a vacancy to the Supreme Court ahead of the presidential election, but it is unclear whether the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will change their stance.
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McConnellās comments last year were met with criticism from Democrats who accused him of hypocrisy, based on the treatment of former President Barack Obamas Supreme Court nominee and D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals chief Judge Merrick Garland.
Obama nominated Garland to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who passed away in 2016, but McConnell and Senate Republicans refused to hold a hearing or vote on his nomination, citing the imminent 2016 presidential election.
Speaking to Fox News last year, McConnell suggested his stance was not hypocritical -- because in 2020, Republicans would control both the White House and the Senate, unlike Democrats in 2016, who controlled only the White House.