Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Friday repeated Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) words back to him verbatim: The Supreme Court vacancy shouldn’t be filled by this President.
In a statement on the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Schumer posted a tweet that sounded oddly familiar: “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice,” he wrote. “Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”
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.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) September 18, 2020
McConnell, eagle-eyed observers recalled, said the same thing in 2016 in the wake of the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
One key difference: McConnell’s quote came in February in an election year, Schumer’s comes in mid-September, with less than seven weeks to go before Election Day.
Senate Republicans refused to consider a replacement for Scalia for months, holding out until President Donald Trump won office.
Democrats in recent months have pressed for the same standard to apply in the case of a new Supreme Court vacancy. But McConnell, last year, said he would fill a 2020 Supreme Court vacancy.
McConnell-criminal can’t do it if there are republican senators that may, at this time, have some morals and grow a spine. Rest In Power Justice Ginsburg.
Right. And McConnell’s obstruction last time didn’t come when his president* was this far behind in the polls.
Before this, we were looking at a miserable time between now and 11/3. Now, we’re looking at something awful beyond comprehension.
Lookin’ at you, Mitt. Have you got any friends left in the Senate?
It’s the Republicans, Chuck. Soulless, amoral, hypocritical fascists.
As if
Moscow Mitch will do as he pleases
He is not an American