McConnell: Biden must move to center to get future Supreme Court pick through a GOP majority

[mystery-ak]

 McConnell: Biden must move to center to get future Supreme Court pick through a GOP majority
by Alexander Bolton - 04/05/22 2:54 PM ET

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday warned that President Biden will have to tack to the center after the 2022 midterm elections if he expects to fill another vacancy on the Supreme Court should Republicans win back control of the Senate. 

McConnell, who has urged his Senate GOP colleagues to oppose Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court, told reporters that Biden won’t necessarily get to place another justice on the court if Republicans capture the Senate majority in November. 

“I’m not going to go forward with any prediction on what our strategy might be should we become the majority,” he told reporters when asked whether he would commit to holding a vote on Biden’s next nominee to the Supreme Court if another vacancy arises in 2023 or 2024 under a Senate Republican majority. 

But McConnell signaled that Biden won’t get to fill another seat on the high court if he nominates someone in the mold of Jackson, whom McConnell has repeatedly criticized as a liberal activist judge. 

“What I can say with pretty great certainty is the president who ran as a moderate and who has governed as Bernie Sanders would, would have to spend the last two years of his term being a moderate,” he said, referencing the liberal senator from Vermont.

That means it’s an open question whether Biden will be able to further shape composition of the Supreme Court if Democrats lose their thin margin in the 50-50 Senate, which they control by virtue of Vice President Harris’s ability to cast tie-breaking votes. 

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https://thehill.com/news/senate/3259692-mcconnell-biden-must-move-to-center-to-get-future-supreme-court-pick-through-a-gop-majority/

[libertybele]

Who is McConnell trying to kid?? 

[DefiantMassRINO]

Mitch, you are kidding nobody.  If there is a GOP majority Senate, Dem President's choice will not get hearings, and The Swamp Turtle will keep the Supreme Court seat vacant until a new GOP President takes office.

[Cyber Liberty]

An empty threat, Bitch.  We have 3 Senators that broke ranks so we could get the mentally retarded person on the SCOTUS, and you won't lift so much as one pinky finger to punish them.

[Cyber Liberty]

Mitch, you are kidding nobody.  If there is a GOP majority Senate, Dem President's choice will not get hearings, and The Swamp Turtle will keep the Supreme Court seat vacant until a new GOP President takes office.

If a Dem President sends nominations to a GOP Senate it will skate right on through because we have so many RINOs there.

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 GOP sends Biden warning shot on future Supreme Court vacancies
by Jordain Carney - 04/05/22 6:23 PM ET

Senate Republicans are refusing to say if they would fill a future potential Supreme Court vacancy during President Biden’s remaining tenure in a warning shot to the White House as the GOP aims to take back control of Congress after the midterms.

Comments from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) about how a GOP-controlled Senate would approach Biden judicial nominees is intensifying questions about whether Republicans would refuse a high court pick from the Democratic president should the GOP control the chamber in 2023.

That notion would mark a major escalation of the long-running, and increasingly antagonistic, judicial wars that have rocked the Senate.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who would be majority leader again if Republicans took back the chamber, is so far refusing to tip his hand.

“I’m not going to go forward with any prediction on what our strategy might be should we become the majority,” McConnell said when asked about a potential vacancy in 2023 or 2024.

McConnell has indicated previously that it would be “highly unlikely” that Republicans would fill a Supreme Court vacancy that occurred in 2024, the next presidential election year, after refusing to give Merrick Garland, former President Obama’s final Supreme Court nominee, a hearing in 2016.

Democrats signaled that they believed McConnell would be willing to keep a seat vacant if that occurred under a Democratic president.

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https://thehill.com/news/senate/3259971-gop-sends-biden-warning-shot-on-future-supreme-court-vacancies/

[Cyber Liberty]

They really think we're that stupid?

[corbe]

  YES

[Kamaji]

Why?  He didn't have to this time; what makes next time so special?