‘Get Mitch or die trying’: Dems step right over RBG to use McConnell to their advantage
September 19, 2020 | Samantha Chang
Twitter leftists threatened more riots and vowed to “Get Mitch or Die Trying†if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell moves to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died at 87 following a long battle with cancer.
In a statement, McConnell expressed condolences for Ginsburg’s passing but vowed: “President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.â€
Some pointed out that McConnell had stated in 2016 that Supreme Court justices should not be filled during an election year.
However, McConnell explained why the Senate will fill the vacancy as soon as possible.
Basically, McConnell said that in 2016, it made no sense to allow a lame-duck president to nominate a SCOTUS judge when he’s on his way out and the Senate and the president were of different political parties.
This year, the circumstances are different because the Senate and the president are from the same party. McConnell wrote:
“In the last midterm election before Justice Scalia’s death in 2016, Americans elected a Republican Senate majority because we pledged to check and balance the last days of a lame-duck president’s second term. We kept our promise.
Since the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed an opposite-party president’s Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year.
By 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. Once again, we will keep our promise.â€
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