‘Easy Historical Precedent’: Marc Short Pushes Back On Jake Tapper Over Senate SCOTUS ConfirmationScott Morefield
Reporter
September 20, 2020 2:10 PM ET
Marc Short, Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, cited “historical precedent†to push back on CNN anchor Jake Tapper during a Sunday morning “State of the Union†debate about the battle over the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s open Supreme Court seat.
The discussion came a day after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he would bring to a vote President Donald Trump’s pick to replace Ginsburg, who died Friday of metastatic pancreatic cancer.
Democrats and media figures have accused Republicans of hypocrisy for withholding a vote to President Barack Obama’s pick of Merrick Garland to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016. Republicans, meanwhile, point out that the White House and Senate were divided in 2016 and are both controlled by the GOP today.
“You heard President Clinton say that all this flip-flopping by Republicans on the issue of nominating a Supreme Court justice during an election year will only increase public cynicism,†Tapper said before playing a clip of then-candidate Donald Trump insisting that Republicans “delay, delay, delay†the pick for Scalia’s open seat in 2016.
“So the Trump position for a Democratic president was ‘delay, delay, delay,’ but for him it’s urgent to confirm someone now,†Tapper said. “How do you push back against the impression voters are gonna have that there seems to be absolutely no principle at stake here, it’s just about raw power?â€
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