July 6, 2018July 6, 2018
Vicious Democrat Lie: The GOP Stole Obama's Supreme Court Seat
By Rich Logis
Can Democrats, especially in Congress, ever talk about a single subject or issue without regurgitating their usual debunked lies, myths, revisionist history, and conspiracy theories?
When United States Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement last week, the usual Democrat suspects took to that bastion of erudite intellect known as social media to invoke what I'm calling "The McConnell Rule," which was a variation of "The Biden Rule." These so-called rules were designed to prevent the filling of a Supreme Court vacancy in a presidential election year.
This is the genesis of the lie, birthed in 2016, that Senator Mitch McConnell, of Kentucky, and the Senate Republicans "stole" a Supreme Court justice seat from President Obama. In February of that year, the late, venerable Justice Antonin Scalia died. A month later, Obama nominated Merrick Garland, a United States Court of Appeals federal judge. The president said he intended to fulfill his constitutional duty to appoint a justice. Immediately thereafter, McConnell led a Senate GOP refusal to even hold confirmation hearings. Unprecedented, yes, but was it "unconstitutional," which is what Democrats always label that with which they disagree?
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/07/vicious_democrat_lie_the_gop_stole_obamas_supreme_court_seat_.html#ixzz5KTjmgf4W
