The current Democratic presidential nominee said in 2016 that he would push ahead with the nomination of a Supreme Court appointee 'even a few months before a presidential election.'
Biden, who spent nearly two decades as chairman or ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, sought to clarify his namesake rule in 2016. He explained in an op-ed and remarks at Georgetown Law School that his 1992 remarks were only aimed at"polarizing" nominees and were not plainly"obstructionist.":"When there is a vacancy on the SCOTUS, the President is to nominate someone, the Senate is to consider that nomination ...
"The Senate will need to fulfill its constitutional responsibility by considering, debating and voting on that nominee," the then-vice president wrote in the March 2016op-ed, which detailed the rule named after him decades earlier.
"As I write this, nearly all Republican senators have said that they will refuse to consider any nominee — sight unseen. At a time when we need to reduce the gridlock in our politics, this would extend Congress's dysfunction to the Supreme Court," Biden wrote in 2016. McConnell said he plans to hold a vote on a Trump nominee as soon as possible, which only requires 50 'yes' votes in a majority chamber with 53 total Republicans.
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